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ConEmu manages the whole elevated/non-elevated situation better than Windows Terminal in my opinion.

As mentioned in the article elevated and non-elevated Windows Terminal windows are two different apps. In ConEmu they are tabs in the app.

The real benefit is that you can easily start either a elevated or non-elevated window within ConEmu, of course this is only possible if ConEmu was started in elevated mode in the first place.

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In Windows Terminal, I'm sure you can create a new profile with your chosen shell prepended with "start-process -Verb RunAs" that will offer similar fuctionality.

And it seems some improvements to mixed elevation is coming soon:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/8455

Only small improvements; that report specifically says that the full feature isn't possible:

> For a long time, we've been researching adding support to the Windows Terminal for running both unelevated and elevated (admin) tabs side-by-side, in the same window. However, after much research, we've determined that there isn't a safe way to do this without opening the Terminal up as a potential escalation-of-privilege vector.

It still opens a separate window, unfortunately.

I use the gsudo program for that gives you sudo in windows terminal and just elevates current shell.

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