unexpected T_NAME_QUALIFIED, expecting T_STRING

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I get the following error when I try to use latest strauss in a new project:

[error] Syntax error, unexpected T_NAME_QUALIFIED, expecting T_STRING on line 20 Script php bin/strauss.phar handling the namespace-dependencies event returned with error code 1 Script @namespace-dependencies was called via post-install-cmd

I run it through PHPStorm AI and it said it might be due to PHP 8.0+ syntax that strauss can't handle currently?

Strauss uses nikic/PHP-Parser to parse and modify PHP code. If Strauss is using an older version of PHP-Parser, it can't understand PHP 8.0+ syntax tokens like T_NAME_QUALIFIED.

Here's my composer.json:

{
    "scripts": {
        "lint" : "mkdir -p logs; vendor/bin/phpcs -s > ./logs/log.txt",
        "compat" : "vendor/bin/phpcs -d memory_limit=1024M -s -p includes --standard=PHPCompatibility --runtime-set php_version 8.2 --runtime-set testVersion 8.2",
        "format": "vendor/bin/phpcbf -p",
        "dist":  "sh bin/dist.sh",
        "namespace-dependencies": [
            "sh -c 'test -f ./bin/strauss.phar || curl -o bin/strauss.phar -L -C - https://github.com/BrianHenryIE/strauss/releases/latest/download/strauss.phar'",
            "php bin/strauss.phar",
            "composer dump-autoload"
        ],
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "@namespace-dependencies"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "@namespace-dependencies",
            "composer dumpautoload"
        ]
    },
    "repositories": [
      {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/SoaringLeads/wp-reusables"
      }
    ],
    "require": {
      "php": ">=8.1.0",
      "cybersource/rest-client-php": "*",
      "soaringleads/wp-reusables": "dev-main"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer": "^1.0.0",
        "wp-coding-standards/wpcs": "^3.0",
        "phpcompatibility/php-compatibility": "^9.0"
    },
    "autoload":{
        "psr-4": {
            "SoaringLeads\\Lefan\\" : "includes/"
        }
    },
    "config": {
        "allow-plugins": {
            "dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer": true
        },
      "platform": {
        "php": "8.1"
      }
    },
    "extra": {
        "strauss": {
            "target_directory": "vendor-prefixed",
            "namespace_prefix": "SoaringLeads\\Lefan\\",
            "classmap_prefix": "SoaringLeads\\Lefan_",
            "constant_prefix": "SOARINGLEADS_LEFAN_",
            "packages": [
            ],
            "update_call_sites": false,
            "override_autoload": {
            },
            "exclude_from_copy": {
                "packages": [
                  "cybersource/rest-client-php",
                  "soaringleads/wp-reusables"
                ],
                "namespaces": [
                ],
                "file_patterns": [
                ]
            },
            "exclude_from_prefix": {
                "packages": [
                  "cybersource/rest-client-php",
                  "soaringleads/wp-reusables"
                ],
                "namespaces": [
                ],
                "file_patterns": [
                ]
            },
            "namespace_replacement_patterns" : {
            },
            "delete_vendor_packages": true,
            "delete_vendor_files": false
        }
    }
}

Here I'm actually excluding both of the packages im requiring as an attempt to fix the issue but it seem to not make a difference. The soaringleads/wp-reusables is a simple library with currently one class that looks like this:

<?php

namespace SoaringLeads\WpReusables\Helpers;

class UtilitiesHelper
{

    /**
     * Helper function to sanitize text.
     *
     * @param array|int|string $text
     *
     * @return array|string|int
     * @since 1.0.0
     */
    public static function sanitizeText( array|string|int $text ): array|string|int {
        return is_array( $text ) ? array_map( 'sanitize_text_field', stripslashes_deep( $text ) ) : sanitize_text_field( stripslashes_deep( $text ) );
    }

    /**
     * Format a phone number to be consistent.
     *
     * @param string $phone_number
     * @return string
     * @since 1.0.0
     */
    public static function formatPhoneNumber( string $phone_number ): string {

        if ( empty( $phone_number ) ) {
            return '';
        }

        // Remove all non-digit characters.
        $phone_number = preg_replace( '/\D/', '', $phone_number );

        if ( str_starts_with( $phone_number, '1' ) ) {
            $phone_number = substr( $phone_number, 1 );
        }

        // Determine the area code.
        if ( strlen( $phone_number ) > 11 ) {
            return ''; // Invalid phone number.
        } elseif ( strlen( $phone_number ) === 10 ) {
            $area_code    = substr( $phone_number, 0, 3 );
            $phone_number = substr( $phone_number, 3 );
        } else {
            $area_code = '758';
        }

        // Format the phone number.
        return '(' . $area_code . ') ' . substr( $phone_number, 0, 3 ) . '-' . substr( $phone_number, 3 );
    }

}

I tried removing the union type from the package and bringing it down again but strauss still failed during the "performing replacements" step.

Any idea whats going on?