I also enjoyed Ventoy a lot, but recently I had the weird issue that it would fail installing a distro on a somewhat odd industrial system, where Rufus worked fine. It probably did something that the odd UEFI implementation didn't understand.
Yeah I just imaged the win11 installer to a usb stick a few days ago using Rufus and was surprised to discover the checkboxes that bypassed all the crap you have to navigate during a normal install.