I know this is me coming from my spoiled perspective of Linux and macOS, but the advice of running a VM that manages the WiFi hardware and passing it back to the OS seems insane to me
Windows and Linux have been moving drivers towards userland to deal with kernel instability and security risks but with modern virtualisation capabilities, I think going one step further only makes sense. Windows itself is already using something called "virtualisation based security" to leverage VMs to secure the kernel and this is just the logical next step.
Qubes does this stuff too, though it works with fully-featured Linux kernels rather than minimal driver interfaces, for exactly the same reasons. A hacked wifi driver may be able to inspect and redirect traffic, but it can't do much more than that, which combined with a strong VPN can protect from quite complicated attack scenarios that normal people have no other recourse against.
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