This is a different solution intended for a separate purpose tangentially related to the article. If it keeps the bridge members active, it is an artifact. Nonetheless, I appreciate you mentioning it and will definitely publish your comment. Having the members WSL vnic + Ethernet (or wlan, etc.) survive a reboot is probably the question I am asked most frequently, and since I never personally came up with a solution (other than re-adding the members after each reboot), I imagine people will be really happy to try yours. An aside: The article was written before W11 was released, I was running W10 LTSC 1809 IIRC.