Catalog specifier updating lockfile in a strange way and causing tsc failures in CI environment

[yashsway]

I have a pnpm monorepo configuration. Within this, I have a workspace (a package) that uses react. Here's a diff of switching to catalog version specifiers:

When I do this and pnpm i in the root of the monorepo, I notice the following lock file changes:

some packages seem to suddenly be "released" from the 17.x restriction? I'm not too familiar with the syntax but something seems off? or am I incorrect? Wanted to raise this before I opened a bug report or something because I'm not sure.

It does seem to be causing tsc (typescript compiler) type build failures in my GitHub action. After several hours, I basically narrowed it down to this change. See the errors below in my GitHub action for publishing the package. I'm essentially building the package, then building types using tsc. The build succeeds but the types build fails:

When I revert the catalog change, it works! 😕