"modify the windows installer via a patch to work around the continued removal steps" really isn't "local accounts are supported" in my book. that's like saying "the 1965 ford mustang was an electric car" because someone did a conversion on it a few years ago.

and the actually supported workarounds have disappeared, last I saw - bypassnro and disabling internet both failed completely for me. maybe they have come back (it has intermittently failed in the past and come back), but they're very clearly doing more to remove it than they did a year+ ago when bypassnro worked easily and consistently.