Understanding why the inverse of an ortogonal matrix is its transpose

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I have seen this question asked many times here for example: Why is inverse of orthogonal matrix is its transpose?

I understand how the answers on that question proves it.

But I want to understand it from the approach of computing the inverse

If we look at tutorials on computing the inverse. It says to swap a and d in the diagonal. for example in this tutorial: https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/matrix-inverse.html

it seems to me that this wouldn't give the transpose because a and d should stay in the same place for the transpose.