The issue lies with the new Xcode 16.2 beta 3 (16C5023f) if you revert your Xcode Cloud to use 16.1 in default environment section in settings for default everything works fine hope this help anyone else with the same issue...

yes xCloud in accordance with git to streamline getting it to test flight and the build will show as failed in xCodeCloud with 8 build errors all rejecting 18.2 as being too high of a value as relating to firebase packages.