Being in this same boat with wine, and my ever-growing hate of Windows is what made me stay in Linux and never look back. I've been using everything linux-native for the last 9 years, and not once have I thought of using Windows again.

I do, however play games in Linux, ever since my wife got me a steam deck for my birthday 😁

Wine has some compatibility differences between its versions — I've had to downgrade it before because the newer version didn't work with the app I wanted. So, if you're ever in the mood to try again, you could check out an older version, and perhaps try launching a simpler app like notepad which is iirc supplied with Wine.

Also, Wine launched from the command line, with the exe as the parameter, usually prints a lot of stuff some of which may say what libraries weren't found, and winetricks allows installing those libraries easily (if it's still around, I haven't done this in a while). Typically something like ‘MS C++ redistributables’ or the .NET framework is necessary.