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This is like Ventoy? I'll give it a try for when I re-do a flash drive. Can I put windows tools on here as well for removing spy/malware etc to fix PCs? With Ventoy I just make a dir and I can select them when the OS boots, but still boot every ISO image at post

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This is more similar to iVentoy, which implements PXE boot, but is closed source. netboot.xyz, on the other hand, requires boot images to be extracted and served in an iPXE-friendly format, which their CI/CD system does automatically. These solutions are good for facilitating OS installations across a fleet of computers on a network.

But for system rescue purposes, Ventoy still wins. You bring your own boot images, which could be arbitrary ISOs, and don't have to worry about networking availability.

I got an NVMe to USB enclosure, put a disk I had laying around into it, and loaded Ventoy onto the disk. It's fantastically fast and I love it.

Not quite the same. It sounds like netboot downloads the images from over the Internet. Whereas Ventoy you preload the images onto a flash drive ahead of time.

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