As to why our build using vanilla Maven settings didn't catch that... I'm at a loss.

Suspected something... and yea:

• https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-build-tools/blob/d783eeea782a93752c677b15e60d355ccc79aa07/provisioning/src/main/java/org/wildfly/build/StandaloneAetherArtifactFileResolver.java#L120-L125