This isn't the first time it's happened, either. It's a pretty frequently recurring issue, in fact:

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16723

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16725

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16732

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16734

All opened the 15th of January though, same as the instance linked in the submission. Seems maybe more accurate to say "widespread issue" rather than "frequent issue", as it seems to only have happened at one occasion, but it had time to spam many issues on that day.