This means that very module must be explicitly loaded by various tests that need the 'gi.requires_versions' part- they no longer sometimes get this by accident (sometimes).
In turn, _test_cloud_save_progress will no longer stub stuff in sys.modules, which is awful- it breaks later tests. That in turns makes it much chattier since it now actually logs stuff. But it seems to pass for all that.
Yikes!
Resolves#6570
Much research and drudgery done by Claude Code 🤖 before it clocked out.
