I wanted to give ADS 2024.1 a try and unfortunately, it is not possible to skip the installation of ARM drivers. I'm not going to be connecting to any device, so it seems odd that I am forced to install "ARM Ltd Ports (COM & LPT", "ARM Ltd Universal Serial Bus controllers" and a series of other drivers for which I don't have associated hardware. If I select "Don't install" on any of these drivers popup, then ADS will rollback everything and refuse to install.
This behaviour didn't exist in previous versions. For some of us, this is a security risk (unknown vulnerabilities/etc) and unhygienic (littering Windows with unwanted software)
Thanks for the CLI workaround, it looks acceptable for us.