Are Anisotropic textures working?

Comparing a wall, near side on, between 2019 built-in and 2020 HDRP, the textures are far sharper in the built-in. It is as if the anisotropic is turned off in HDRP though I have it forced on.
I also set the textures in code for HDRP to be trilinear and aniso 9 (there is much confusion to be cleaned up here by Unity since anisotropic should be another level above trilinear and is it 1-9 as in API Doc or 0-16 as slider is?!)

So do the material textures compare in sharpness in HDRP? I am using forward and MSAA (on/off no difference)

Edit: Issue was the shader graphs have sampler states with no anisotropic option - so remove sampler state and you get the texture's aniso setting... ?! That is dodgy fix