If faith requires works to be real faith or saving faith...then there is no real and saving faith without faith and works. How it is packaged is irrelevant.
It appears to matter in biblical terms. There is certainly a clear order of appearance. Salvation is thru Faith alone, but not by a Faith that is alone. Works are the fruit of a true salvation experience, not the cause.
Eph 2:8-10 8For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
That is a mere rationalization of faith alone.
In reality your “saving faith” is faith and works. Because faith without works is dead.