You can use any addressable LED strip. This is indicated by the LED strip having at least a data line, or a data and clock line in the case of the APA102 (AKA "DotStar" in Adafruit marketing speak).
You cannot use the non-addressable LED strips for this purpose. Those can only be controlled as an entire strip rather than individual LEDs.
There is nothing magical about the Adafruit LED strips. They are just the standard addressable LEDs but Adafruit gave them fancy names. That name comes with Adafruit's excellent customer service and hopefully some care in sourcing but likely a price increase as well.