I truly appreciate the time you're spending with me on this -
For background, this is my personal workstation, all drives are separate physical and local drives, no network/remote connections. Running fsutil doesn't show any issues with my setup, as I would expect since I can see the symlinks, query them, follow them, and run HTML and TXT files from them:
D:\wamp64\www>fsutil behavior
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