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While not exactly what you're looking for, you can use macOS Font Book to disable a Font or Font Collections.
Good luck with that - this has been an issue for like a decade. They dont care.
Im obviously here for same reason. Tired of working on graphics and having to scroll through a sea of NOTO and STIX and a few dozen more that I can't disable, delete, hide, etc....
Id be happy if Apple or Adobe stored fonts in different sub folders... System fonts can be hidden from other programs and stored in the library - wouldn't be hard for Apple to have a "Fonts - User" and a "Fonts - System" folder setup.
The other issue is... only so many fonts (and this includes variations) can be activated at the same time - Id rather take up my space having my fonts... I mean look at this list & thats just half of the NOTO's. - RIDICULOUS!
 
Apple has made an API for this purpose since at least High Sierra. It's what they use to hide fonts not related to your language in Font Book, Pages, etc.
Adobe has yet to implement it, and they are one of the few holdouts who insist on displaying every single macOS system font, without giving the user an option to hide them.
Still, this wasn't a big deal until Ventura. You used to be able to use any of the better third party fonts managers to disable as many of the fonts in the /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental folder as you wanted. But in Ventura, even these are now completely off limits to the user. Leaving us with ridiclously long font lists in the Adobe CC suite.
Purely a guess on my part, but I can only think Adobe isn't hiding these fonts since they can't know which fonts an advertising firm or print shop may need access to in order to work on a multi-language brochure, flyer, etc. Essentially, why make the user purchase similar third party foreign language fonts when what you need is already provided with the OS?
Making favorite font lists is a pain in the posterior. You will find yourself constantly editing this list as you switch jobs and need access to different fonts. It is better than nothing, but clumsy.
The API, if Adobe would ever implement it, is a very simple and elegant solution. The developer of EtreCheck wrote a teeny app that shows how easy this is. He has since pulled it from GitHub, but I can show a couple of screen shots.
Probably the most annoying to Mac users is the roughly 100 Noto Sans fonts you can't get out of the way. With the check box off, you see those and many other fonts most English users will never need.
Turn the check box on, and poof! All non-English fonts are instantly hidden.
That's literally all it would take to (mostly) fix this issue. A check box. The makers of the SoftMaker Office suite are adding one to the upcoming 2024 release.
Where would I put it? At the top right so it's always out front and easily available. Turn it off when you need access to those extra foreign fonts. Turn it on when you don't.
Unfortunately, no. In Ventura, and likely every OS going forward, Apple has made every font installed by the OS off limits to the user. Even just deactivating those you don't need isn't allowed.
Neither Font Book, or any third party font manager can touch them. Some, like RightFont, will go through the motions of disabling the Supplemental fonts, and even shows them as deactivated in its interface. But nothing actually happens. They're still all active.
Per my little suggestion above, it would make more sense to add a check box to hide the system fonts in the text options.
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