@doyenwilliams
The breadcrumb options appear in the SEO-Search Appearance-Breadcrumb section when you have correctly implemented the breadcrumbs. BUT some themes go ahead and implement integration with the Yoast breadcrumbs within their code.
We are not sure what was done on your site. We would like some more information.
1. Can you confirm the Yoast breadcrumbs have been implemented? This guide explains more:?https://yoast.com/help/implement-wordpress-seo-breadcrumbs/#implement.
2. Did your theme developer add support for Yoast breadcrumbs?
If you need to disable the breadcrumbs the filter wpseo_breadcrumb controls them. You would need to create some custom code using that filter to disable the breadcrumbs.
Unfortunately, there’s a difference between the support we can offer and the level of programming needed to change (core) features of our plugin. Since we don’t want to take the risk that we break your website by suggesting incorrect or incomplete code, we cannot advise you on how to make such changes. And even though we cannot be of any assistance, you’re completely free to change anything in the plugin to better suit your needs.
We highly recommend checking out?our list of Yoast Partners here https://yoast.com/yoast-partners/ in case you are in need of development.
We will also keep this issue open for 2 weeks in case someone from the community can help. Perhaps a developer watching these forums can assist further. After which, we will close in order to keep the overview.