NTLite and KMS Pico

Hi, I am new and I have some questions about NTLite and KMS Pico.

I am preparing a very barebone Win10 ISO with NTLite for personal usage, with pretty everything removed, including Microsoft Account and Software Protection components.

1.Does KMS Pico work even with the above services removed, as far as you know ?

2.I wonder why I see no watermark and why I can apparently configure any kind of settings with this setup, despite not activated... or maybe those limitations will popup after 30 or more days anyway ?

Thanks in advance

 

What about the KMS VL script instead ?
It seems that it can still work without Microsoft account components, as long as Software Protection service is in place, but I am not 100% sure... It ran fine without errors, but what is strange is that I was not seeing any watermarks even before activating, and I could freely configure every setting, while everybody says that when Win is not activated you see a watermark and some settings are disabled...

 

I tested.
With massgrave.dev (hwid) I still need to keep Microsoft Accounts and Work or School Account, which I wanted to get rid of, otherwise it gives error.
Using KMS VL instead (still hwid), I can remove those two components and it still works (as long as Software Protection service is kept of course).