You can just click Recovery Assistant and then select Erase Mac…. Yes, that’s that menu item hidden in the top-left corner.
If you don’t know the password to a user account and also don’t know the recovery key to FileVault, you can still use recovery mode to erase the current installation and reinstall macOS. Option 1: Erase without password or recovery key This prompt just seems like a rather odd choice, especially since it appears to act as almost some kind of firmware lock… except it’s not. Without mounting the encrypted drive, you can’t really reset a password or have access to the data on the drive.
T2-chip Macs have hardware-based encryption, and that encryption is able to turn on instantaneously. It’s not exactly clear what this password is for. Starting in macOS 10.15 (Catalina), Apple started requiring a password to do anything useful after booting into recovery mode:
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