Long story short, I had to reinstall Windows 11 because of issues. So after installing the new build that was released (Win 11 24H2) I now get the error '30005 EasyantiCheat_EOSSYS failed with 1275'.
After doing some searching it appears to be the new security settings at the kernal level that EasyCheat is not liking. As a result I basically can't play the game until EasyCheat / SoT do a fix to address it. I've read that I could turn off the kernal level protection but that's not something that I want to be doing for one game (that I've found the problem for so far).
This post is more an FYI in case others come across it, maybe someone has some other ideas to work around it, in which case I'm all ears.