I tried restoring my phone using this tool, using QPST unfortunately, a green progress bar stays green, and never continues I think it should say "connected", attempting to flash partitions on one of the tabs, results in "cannot communicate with programmer"
The standard QFIL Tool, finds the VIP partition on the phone, and then reads the information and spits out, not authenticated, and fails to continue..
A part of me wishes I could destroy the VIP partition, or at least delete it, that way QFILL would flash, and everything should work.. but then again, the VIP partition is a part of the EDL chip is it not.. it's a double edged sword..
People would have more of a chance these days taking a defib to their phones motherboard, maybe if they are "Extremely" lucky, they short out a data line that communicates with the VIP protocol, allowing the flash to happen, or their OnePlus 10T turns into a Pixel 7 Pro..