Thanks, this was very helpful!
I had some trouble with the Ninja build environment.
It turned out that there was a conflict with Cygwin.
I disabled Cygwin in my PATH and that fixed the problem.

Thanks for including your tasks and launch scripts :)
I was finally able to debug ESP32 WROVER board with VS Code using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
To do so I followed these steps:

Enable ESP32 environment on WSL: https://www.instructables.com/id/ESP32-Development-on-Windows-Subsystem ...