Confirming that I have tested the patch provided by the @project-update-bot and it fixes the issue.
Thanks so much, Heitor! My site authors rely on this module so I really appreciate the extra upgrade recommendations - didn't know about Composer Drupal Lenient, which sounds like it might solve this and a couple of my other module upgrade problems :)
thanks for the MR, halth. looks good to me, but I'm a first-time contributor and not sure how to 'officially' submit a review - does this count or do I need to do something in gitlab?