Make simple checkboxes into a standard tool, not developer tool

why in so many applications is it so easy to just start a checklist? in word you can do it, simply start bullet points and click the checkbox bullet point. boom, done.

i understand that you can do many complex and intricate things with the developer tool checkboxes in excel, by why is there not a simple option that just lets me make a checklist for a matrix of things?
example: i have multiple sheets to check for various items. i need to have the list of sheets descending in the y direction and the list of things i need to check for each sheet in the x direction (or vice versa) and all i want to do is select the empty space after i've created the list and fill them in with checkboxes.

why do i have to learn how to use an entirely new developer tool just to do that? that's quite ridiculous.

our office has mostly just resorted to typing an X or "done" in the fields that would be checked off in a table. i can do that and it is easy, but a checkbox would be so much simpler and it seems quite ridiculous that it just doesn't exist in excel. that way instead of pasting "done" or typing an x into a field i could just click through to check things off the same way you can check off items in a phone app list or anything else. what gives? how many years has excel been around and this still isn't a thing? was it a thing that got removed? why does it only exist as an overly complicated developer tool?