Upgrading Gradle Quarkus Plugin to 2.10.0.Final - gradle

Question

trying to upgrade Gradle's Quarkus Plugin to 2.10.0.Final. Running
./gradlew build -x test
leads to
An exception occurred applying plugin request [id: 'io.quarkus', version: '2.10.0.Final']
> Failed to apply plugin 'io.quarkus'.
> class org.gradle.api.internal.provider.DefaultProvider cannot be cast to class org.gradle.api.internal.provider.CollectionProviderInternal (org.gradle.api.internal.provider.DefaultProvider and org.gradle.api.internal.provider.CollectionProviderInternal are in unnamed module of loader org.gradle.internal.classloader.VisitableURLClassLoader #685cb137)
Above Exception gives me the impression, that gradle can't find version 2.10.0.Final of the plugin, which is counter-intuitive for me ... it is available online https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/io.quarkus.
For reference:
gradle.properties
quarkusPluginVersion=2.10.0.Final
quarkusPlatformArtifactId=quarkus-bom
quarkusPluginId=io.quarkus
quarkusPlatformGroupId=io.quarkus.platform
quarkusPlatformVersion=2.10.0.Final
settings.gradle
pluginManagement {
repositories {
mavenLocal()
mavenCentral()
gradlePluginPortal()
}
plugins {
id "${quarkusPluginId}" version "${quarkusPluginVersion}"
}
}
EDIT
$ ./gradlew --version
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Gradle 7.3.3
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Build time: 2021-12-22 12:37:54 UTC
Revision: 6f556c80f945dc54b50e0be633da6c62dbe8dc71
Kotlin: 1.5.31
Groovy: 3.0.9
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.11 compiled on July 10 2021
JVM: 11.0.15 (Azul Systems, Inc. 11.0.15+10-LTS)
OS: Mac OS X 12.1 x86_64