Yes, super easy. Just shift-option-dash. But I wouldn't do it as people will just assume you're using an AI.
Smart quotes? I hardly even remember that. I turn that off immediately, along with automatic spell checks (which are a headache if you switch between languages).
Ditto the directional "smart quotes", OSX inserts them by default (and sometimes breaks stuff like pasting json into Slack).
There certainly are a lot of them in the article.