Understood, and yes, that's perfectly reasonable.
I've not tried that exact workflow with my Win11 pro.
I presume you can't log into the Domain account in the first instance, during initial setup, because at that point the machine is not a member of the Domain.
Unless there are Domain-joining options exposed at that point?
So you need to make a temp local account, from where you can then join the machine to the Domain using your Domain Admin credentials, and then once that's done, you can use a Domain account, and the temp local account can be binned.
In order to create a local account on Win Home versions, it's been made intentionally harder, indeed almost impossible.
As I've said earlier, the simplest way is to create the bootable USB stick from the downloaded ISO using Rufus, it can adjust the installer defaults on the fly, and allows for the installation without a MS account. It's not 'hacking' anything, it's just exposing supported options which MS don't expose in their Out-Of-Box installer for the Proles with their Home version.
I used this even when installing Win11 pro on my home Domain, and I highly recommend it.