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Sadly, it still doesn't fix the longstanding issue where it becomes totally unresponsive when there is a large amount of output being displayed, in which case it becomes totally unusable and unresponsive to Ctrl-C (can take 10-30 seconds to break, compared to < 1 in pretty much any Linux terminal).
I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but for what it's worth, I use the Starship prompt on bash in WSL 2 and one of the things I like about it is that whenever a command takes a while to run, by default, Starship also prints out how long it took.
Customizing the prompt in cmd is painful, but not impossible. I wrote up a bit of a guide over here. I use that to get something like: 
You can get a custom modern prompt on cmd with cmder-powerline-prompt. This requires Clink, which I also recommend; with its syntax highlighting, auto-complete, Readline-like line editing features it makes it even better than bash :)
I've been using https://github.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake for a while now. If its implemented anywhere near it, please be aware of z-index issues especially if i've got "always on top" apps.
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