They haven’t dropped the requirement, but you have to manually go in and disable that check yourself on the windows 11 installer if you want to install it on a non-tpm 2.0 machine
Basically, it’s a faff that only the techie people will realistically do. Everyone else will just go out and buy new hardware.
You need to uncheck the checkbox so the iso can install on non tpm hardware but you also need to tweak the registry when installing windows so the installer doesn't check for tpm compatability.
As if anyone is building a computer who isn't a techie 🤣
If you can't figure out tpm you're going to have a bad fucking time with MB and case headers. There number of people who have purchased comforter parts, and got stuck on tpm only to return them is probably in the hundreds worldwide.