Does NTFS modify macOS Disk Utility to enable formatting in NTFS?

[TLMurray]

No.
Disk Utility is not modified by NTFS for Mac.
What NTFS for Mac does -- it adds some specific files to your computer -- which are then recognized and used by Disk Utility to format into NTFS.

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