That would be great. I will not buy a VR headset that requires an "account" in order to use. It's my own personal line in the sand that I am drawing. I would not accept any other peripheral like a monitor or a mouse that required an account to use, and so it doesn't make sense to accept a headset either.

If it's like the Steam Deck you can probably do that but it'll be a pain in the ass.

Are you able to setup Valve Index with SteamVR without first logging into Steam?