Unless you have Administrator permission as a member you can't add watchers to a ticket.
This is expected behavior and one of the many limiting controls of team managed projects themselves:
permissions for team managed projects work as outlined here: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/next-gen-permissions/
Best,
Clark
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