I tried it as well, with 4 pieces, none worked on SPI. Tried on ESP32, ESP32 S3 and P4 Nano boards.
I put together 4 of this sensor (pololu module) on one ESP32 P4 Nano board and after plenty of tweaking got them all working in I2C with full sync.
Any idea when the STEVAL-VL53L9 module be available?