@iska @mario I can confirm that apple does things like remove checkboxes.

Even if the "allow" checkboxes are there, apple often sabotages them to make sure they don't work.

The last time I had the misfortune of using a macbook I tried to install homebrew (so I could at least get the free software needed for the task installed) and I did have the root password, but the "allow" install button did not work, nor the online workarounds where you use the accessibility API to press the button (it seems that apple intentionally made the button fail to work, but neglected to realize that the sabotage didn't apply to the accessibility API, but of course fixed that as soon as they realized).