This worked.

I find it very frustrating that the official laravel starter kit video shows incorrect info. Also the fact that Jeffrey Way's tutorial about laravel with inertia, which is just 3 years old, is already outdated.

Try this. Since there are not supposed to be any major breaking changes, this may work.

composer create-project laravel/laravel
composer require laravel/breeze --dev
php artisan breeze:install

After running breeze:install you will get a prompt of which stack to install:

 ● Blade with Alpine                                        │
 │   ○ Livewire (Volt Class API) with Alpine                    │
 │   ○ Livewire (Volt Functional API) with Alpine               │
 │   ○ React with Inertia                                       │
 │   ○ Vue with Inertia                                         │
 │   ○ API only