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The metadata is adjusted for Windows in a way that is foreign to Linux.

Do Linux NTFS drivers deal with alternate streams?

"Getting and setting of Access Control Lists (ACLs), using the xattr security.NTACL"

"Alternate Data Streams (e.g. :Zone.Identifier is stored as the xattr user.Zone.Identifier)"

Not sure what point you're making here. WinBtrfs is a driver for the same btrfs filesystem that Linux uses. It's most common use case is reading the Linux partitions in Windows on machines that dual-boot both operating systems

What? Why would you need a Linux NTFS driver to read a btrfs filesystem? that makes no sense.

Storing Windows ACLs in xattrs is also pretty common (Samba does the same)

I'd delete my comment if I could at this point.

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