The reason you don’t find one is that Adobe has a policy where only the current version and one previous version of a Creative Cloud application is supported and available for installation. That means every year when a new major version is released, the third most recent version is no longer supported and is dropped from the Creative Cloud installer.
Based on that policy, the versions available for installation are Lightroom Classic 13 and 12. Of those two versions, Lightroom Classic 12 does support macOS 11 and later, but Lightroom Classic 13 does not. So you can use the current Creative Cloud desktop app to install Lightroom Classic 12.
By the way, the reason for the macOS support cutoffs is that Adobe matches the Apple policy for macOS support: Both Adobe and Apple support only the last three versions of macOS, and again, every year Apple releases a new one so the oldest one falls off. Currently, that means Adobe and Apple support macOS 14, 13, and 12. Next year, that will ratchet up to macOS 15 (probably), 14, and 13.
Yes, this means you can always expect that starting from the release date (not purchase date) of any Mac model, after about 7 or 8 years you’ll have to buy a new one if you want to be able to upgrade to current versions of both macOS and Creative Cloud applications.
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