A valid concern. My experience is that by now, most apps/projects have support for m1 Mac’s out of the box. For the minority that don’t, I always find a solution that fits nicely in the first gist shown by google. I honestly don’t even consider it to be an inconvenience when I hold it up next to my experience with wsl. Not to mention that the support for new Mac architecture will only continue to improve + be a priority given the market share.
Don’t forget that even if you somehow run out of avenues for support on a mac, you can always dual boot linux on it. You could probably even bootcamp a mac to run windows and then run wsl inside it (I’m kidding but you get the point).
Since the arm CPU is still new to a lot of apps/tooling, people are not left with much, other than some workarounds and hacks that will serve as a stop-gap solution for a lot of things.
I'm worried about this as well and wondering how much is this has been true in your case! Thanks!