Microsoft's attitude is that only "Professionals" or "Enterprises" could possibly want to run a computer not connected to the internet.
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...t-on-win-11-home-sl.84109/page-3#post-1737930 All OOBE account creation scenarios except home (same as with homesl).
This is indeed still working. Saved me a lot of time on some laptops. Shift-F10 when it wants to connect, followed by : taskkill /F /IM oobenetworkconnectionflow.exe