Somewhat unrelated but do we still need Docker Desktop for Mac to run Docker containers on macOS? Why is that, is it because Linux is needed? Couldn't Docker run containers natively using just macOS?
A short description, a bit old, but still useful:
So even if Docker supported a native container system on MacOS, it would be useless because no Linux Docker images could run on it.
I'd suggest you virtualize a normal Linux host on your machine (under VMware for example) and run Docker there.
The reason it doesn't work on WSL1 is because of the whole Linux kernel not being there, the features required for Docker to work don't exist. But since WSL2 is a (rather performant for certain tasks) VM, it works fine.
[1] https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows...
The problems started when I docker-compose up'd a pretty basic nginx-php-mariadb stack.