"You’d have to install macFUSE binary from their official site first, and load their kernel extension via the GUI, before running the Homebrew command to solve

"You’d have to install macFUSE binary from their official site first, and load their kernel extension via the GUI, before running the Homebrew command to solve it." Agreed - again, from someone who has given a lot of thought to sshfs and mounting ssh/sftp on OSX. See my reply to a sibling-of-your-parent, upthread: use Mountain Duck.