diff --git a/cli/command/formatter/displayutils.go b/cli/command/formatter/displayutils.go
index 0f7267e717..ad5c2a368a 100644
--- a/cli/command/formatter/displayutils.go
+++ b/cli/command/formatter/displayutils.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.22
+
 package formatter
 
 import (