The docs reflect the situation with /e/OS 1.0, i.e. about May/June 2022.
The distinction regarding rooted debugging was resolved for all /e/OS builds from Android 12 on, which came later (first Android 12 S release in the release notes was 1.5.1-s from December 2022).
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@Manoj … How to root /e/OS needs some updating, it would seem.