It actually failed even before that. The project states "The goal is to make moving between Linux, macOS, WSL, containers, and Windows frictionless: the same commands, flags, and pipelines work the same way, so *existing scripts carry over without translation.*"

... but they failed to provide a port of Bash - so how exactly do they expect someone to run a bash script in Windows "without translation"? If the answer is WSL, then there's no need to port the coreutils over because WSL distros already include them. If the answer is to port the scripts over to PowerShell, then you wouldn't want to call Windows coreutils in your PowerShell scripts and run into unexpected behaviour (and also lose out on the object manipulation advantages of PowerShell).

And finally, they failed to port over commands that would actually be useful - like dd, for writing ISOs to a flash drive or backing up drives. chroot could've taken advantage of Windows' new sandbox feature to switch to a virtual C: drive. chown could've been an easier alternative to takeown/icacls. chmod could be used to remove the annoying network file blocks and also change file attributes and so on.

This whole project seems like a half-assed attempt at nothing.

Busybox helps you avoid this nicely on Windows. When you run one of one of its shells, it uses all it's own builtins in preference to anything external.

Get the 64-bit version: "there's some advantage in using the 64-bit executable busybox64.exe. In particular, it can be quite a bit faster."

https://frippery.org/busybox/index.html

Don't do the absolute paths. Do the environment.

Maybe someone out there mixmashes PowerShell, bash, sh and cmd scripts from different platforms in one session - but usually it's one, quite straightforward 'flow' which requires a quite specific environment.