C++ Program Being blocked by SAC after adding Cryptographic token

Question

I am writing a Console application in Visual Studio, as a proof of concept, before I write the actual program I am wanting to make, the program ran perfectly fine for the last two days during small iterative upgrades, I have no build issues, but as soon as I added a cryptographic token to the program SAC blocks it from running, I am in the very early stages of writing this POC application, and I can't imagine this is going to get any better when I write the actual software. I am nowhere near close to where I want to be before paying for a Signed Certificate and honestly never wanted to sign the POC as it's just a demonstration of what the actual software will do. Developer mode is turned on, this is my personal gaming machine as well so I don't want to turn SAC off for a litany of reasons. Is there a Microsoft approved way of preventing SAC from shutting down my locally written application without having to expose my machine security to possible real threats, without having to sign the application with a trusted cert? I am using windows 11 home, I cannot change SAC to evaluating, I absolutely do not want to reinstall windows after turning off SAC just to turn it back on. and I refuse to write a program I cannot debug as I go along.