I tried installing waydroid with WSL but I'm not good enough to know what I'm doing wrong or even if it's possible lol.

Try RamBox for improving web versions of those services.

i use nox. it's faster than bluestacks for me and less prone to bugs than most of the other emulators i've tried. also, it allows you to create direct shortcuts to your android apps on your desktop - which you can also pin to the start menu or taskbar.

I would like to know that too, and specifically I'm searching for emulator that will allow me to run Google Home for example.

android studio for a virtual android device on your pc - not sure if the devices are reset after you close it though tbh. the phone link app works pretty well but isnt a direct thing and sharing files is still sometimes a bit annoying

I use it mostly for streaming and news apps that are not supported fully on windows (for example Disney which on windows is unable to download to view offline) apps such as authy, Feedly or San Diego Union tribune.

im not familiar with those apps specifically but honestly you dont really need an authenticator app if you just use the built in android fingerprint reader thing combined with google SSO and microsoft SSO it all stays pretty secure. personally i trust google/microsoft/samsung over random developers like whoever made authy and the other ones.

as for the newspaper... just use the website? lol.

microsoft start newsfeed is decent too - once you get a list of solid publishers - but they do keep making subtle changes that are making me re-think recommending it all the time, so ymmv

Emulator devices probably won't work for streaming. They don't support hardware-accelerated video decoding, and I don't think they support DRM either.

Google "Android emulators for Windows"

Do people not use search engines any more?

Because my question was really specific, if you see most of Google search forward you to gaming emulators, thanks anyways for your "support"