<Why does Gradle force a Kotlin version, and how t...

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Why does Gradle force a Kotlin version, and how to fix it?
I have a simple Gradle project that includes the following configuration:
plugins {
kotlin("jvm")
}

This does different things when running with different gradle versions:
$ ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=7.5
$ ./gradlew --version
Kotlin: 1.6.21

$ ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=7.4.2
$ ./gradlew --version
Kotlin: 1.5.31

$ ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=7.2
$ ./gradlew --version
Kotlin: 1.5.21

OK, so Gradle is determining the version of the Kotlin plugin....