Dave, the registry change works only if you make it BEFORE applying the august update, for example before restarting after update. After that SBAT is already changed. I suppose it is a change in the UEFI itself, because I cannot boot a Ventoy flash drive even if the hard disk is cleaned and deinitialized (diskpart, clean all)
Source:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-23H2
There are some workarounds in the link.