You can check your peers, maybe some of them accept free transactions?
I get the exact same result as you do, but nodes reject my 0 sat/vb transaction:
createrawtransaction '[{"txid":"d9251a6f083848d190664c721b5ee3a1690c09b02afcefe08fe7fce4977f18c7","vout":0}]' '[{"tb1qv9m80m7y7zt8u30qwdwajcmlzv3jvg4mey7zju":8.98999859}]' 0 true
0200000001c7187f97e4fce78fe0effc2ab0090c69a1e35e1b724c6690d14838086f1a25d90000000000fdffffff0133a6953500000000160014617677efc4f0967e45e0735dd9637f13232622bb00000000
signrawtransactionwithwallet "0200000001c7187f97e4fce78fe0effc2ab0090c69a1e35e1b724c6690d14838086f1a25d90000000000fdffffff0133a6953500000000160014617677efc4f0967e45e0735dd9637f13232622bb00000000" '[{"txid":"d9251a6f083848d190664c721b5ee3a1690c09b02afcefe08fe7fce4977f18c7","vout":0,"scriptPubKey":"0014617677efc4f0967e45e0735dd9637f13232622bb","amount":8.98999859}]'
{
"hex": "02000000000101c7187f97e4fce78fe0effc2ab0090c69a1e35e1b724c6690d14838086f1a25d90000000000fdffffff0133a6953500000000160014617677efc4f0967e45e0735dd9637f13232622bb0247304402202544c93845d2a565817c00c76987fdee4b9ac0019374f2185db2188bfe0a4a97022020458c57f7e54521236b137b24a9363305adb3a30fc521bdf06dfa801a16992e012103d3216bfc75eb4a7d9327398adf31b863bb3efcab932d2968d459d64df8333bcc00000000",
"complete": true
}
sendrawtransaction 02000000000101c7187f97e4fce78fe0effc2ab0090c69a1e35e1b724c6690d14838086f1a25d90000000000fdffffff0133a6953500000000160014617677efc4f0967e45e0735dd9637f13232622bb0247304402202544c93845d2a565817c00c76987fdee4b9ac0019374f2185db2188bfe0a4a97022020458c57f7e54521236b137b24a9363305adb3a30fc521bdf06dfa801a16992e012103d3216bfc75eb4a7d9327398adf31b863bb3efcab932d2968d459d64df8333bcc00000000
min relay fee not met, 0 < 110 (code -26)
Lol. It's kinda cool, having some testnet4 coins could come in handy some day. Is that the address in my profile?
Yep, it's the bech32 one, sitting on your profile page.
I was hoping getting testnet4 working would be easier by now, but I'm still stuck on boost errors. I guess I'll just wait until testnet4 is enabled by default. For now, I've labeled the address as "testnet4"

I was facing some problems too when I tried to do this manually, but all it needed was just to fetch the clone properly. Did you fetch it as written in
here?