cisco.ios.ios_config module reporting odd local path error

I have an existing playbook that suddenly seems to be having an odd problem I cant identify.

There are a series of API calls to our password manager, then setting specific facts based on those calls. Finally I get to this command.

- name: Backup configuration from switch stacks....
  cisco.ios.ios_config:
    backup: true
    backup_options:
      filename: "{{  file_string  }}.txt"
      dir_path: "/home/user_account/backups/{{  inventory_hostname  }}"

Which gives me a super odd verbose output of:

The full traceback is:
  File "/home/user_account/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/module_utils/network/ios/ios.py", line 60, in get_capabilities
    capabilities = Connection(module._socket_path).get_capabilities()
  File "/home/user_account/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible/module_utils/connection.py", line 193, in __rpc__
    response = self._exec_jsonrpc(name, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user_account/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible/module_utils/connection.py", line 140, in _exec_jsonrpc
    raise ConnectionError(
fatal: [hostname]: FAILED! => changed=false
  invocation:
    module_args:
      after: null
      backup: true
      backup_options:
        dir_path: /home/user_account/backups/hostname
        filename: hostname_20240822T195858.txt
      before: null
      defaults: false
      diff_against: null
      diff_ignore_lines: null
      intended_config: null
      lines: null
      match: line
      multiline_delimiter: '@'
      parents: null
      replace: line
      running_config: null
      save_when: never
      src: null
  msg: socket path /home/user_account/.ansible/pc/e1b79382e1 does not exist or cannot be found. See Troubleshooting socket path issues in the Network Debug and Troubleshooting Guide

...for each host that the play is running against. I found a couple suggestions that didn't make much sense. The first being to use LibSSH, but I have found a ton of problems when not using Paramiko, and am hesitant to change back. The second being to downgrade to Ansible 2.14 due to some unspecified "issues" with .15-.17.

This seems super odd to me as the path the error is providing seems to be a fake or temporary path for something Ansible is doing in the background which leaves me very little to work with.

I am currently running Ansible core 2.17.0, with Python 3.10.12, on Ubuntu 22.04.