You don't need an account. De-bloating scripts take care of most other annoyances. You can fairly easily beat windows into submission
AFAIK CTT's tool literally uses Microsoft provided tooling. Edit: it's the same tooling used by companies to modify their own windows installs
Last I checked windows 11 can be installed without TPM support. I think rufus even has a simple checkbox for it and Chris Titus's winutil can modify an ISO to do the sams
It's probably best to use an immutable distro like NixOs or Fedore SilverBlue when installing for people who don't know Linux and don't want to learn
You don't need an account. De-bloating scripts take care of most other annoyances. You can fairly easily beat windows into submission