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Pretending to be Windows 11 did not work however a Lenovo support representative recently encountered this error and it is due to Intel AMT being enabled in the BIOS. Disabling it has enabled the iwlwifi to work correctly as expected.

Perhaps AMT does not work on Linux which was why the system was being restrictive when compared to Windows?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2184157#p2184157