Hello,Absolutely no idea if it will help you solve your problem but the Archwiki has an potentially interesting tip for reverting the Debian default behavior:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#Prevent_installing_Mono/Gecko
so, perhaps setting the WINEDLLOVERRIDES environment variable to something other than "mscoree=d;mshtml=d" (=e ?) could permit Wine to download/install internet explorer
