Preferably from 2020 onwards and without the need for a mandatory product key/Microsoft account, I’ve already had a lot of headaches because of these two “casualities”!
You can download certain iso files directly from windows:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/
Edit: also cant you skip account creation and license key on every version? literally skipped those yesterday on an OEM preinstalled win 11
They “fixed” that now though.
But
Shift + F10 to open CMD
cd oobe
bypassnro
The machine will reboot and let you skip network setup. But do not connect to a network yet!