Wrong type passed to Entity Query (Drupal 10)

Hate committing things with no functional tests of the save process. Definitely need to prioritize 📌 Add test coverage Fixed .
But tested on one site for months and we do need a stable release rather than dev.

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

BEFORE:
$terms = taxonomy_term_load_multiple_by_name($item, 'tags');

AFTER:

$terms = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage("taxonomy_vocabulary")->loadByProperties(["name" => (string)$item, "vid" => 'tags']);

(string) this is the string enforcement.

This worked for me.