Quicker way to bypass microsoft account creation

I had one today, a fairly new Lenovo Ideapad 3 laptop that the user had screwed up the login somehow. Startup said PIN not valid, set a new one, but no way out. Recovery mode didn't even have a Reset option, PCUnlocker didn't work either. No data to save so decided to just do a fresh install.

My Rufus-created Win11 installer (with MS account bypass and other Rufus modifications) didn't work, kept getting an error:
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So I created a new installer without any modifications and it worked. Then the SF10 key wouldn't bring up the command prompt for attempting bypass of network connection (even with Fn held as well). Couldn't do the bypassnro command or termination of the network process.

I don't have the user's MS account so I tried the invalid email address method. no@no.com didn't work, wanted to recover password to another email address. Random ones I chose didn't work, tried user@nowhere.com etc, didn't work.
Tried test@test.com and it worked! Allowed local account creation.
 
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