Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address

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Door slammed on last remaining easy Windows 11 local account setup workaround
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That's a crazy secret code requirement there

If it doesn’t work, make sure to type his first:

⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️ B A Select Start

Shift F10 just opens the command prompt. After that it's the name of a batch file in the oobe folder. (Out of box experience.) You can tab complete the name so you just have to remember the oobe part. The biggest annoyance is if you buy a laptop that is in S mode, you can't start command prompt to do this.

All it does is add a registry key, and reboot, but you would have to know how to do custom windows deployments to to create an image to skip it always.