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It's less overhead and better integrated into the system as a whole. After all a VM is still a separate entity in its own environment. WSL is jumping over the fence and runs Linux stuff in a Windows environment.

Think of it the other way. Why would you use wine if you could just run Windows in a VM? :)

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Why someone might use Wine is that it's free software. That's about it.

I think the point that parent commenter tried to make is actually that one might use Wine instead of VM because Wine has less overhead.

> less overhead

is it really? last time I read tests WSL was slower than VMs

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