oclif generate command won't pass initial tests

Question

I generated a new CLI with oclif, and everything was functional with the "hello, world" example provided. However, when I went to edit the initial "hello world" example I am no longer able to get the unittests to pass.

I assumed I had removed something important, and I created another command oclif generate command mycmd2 to compare the differences, but this also fails the generated unittests.

Building and executing the command directly from the bin folder (.\bin\dev.cmd mycmd) produces the correct values.

project structure:

my-app/
├─ packages/
│  ├─ cli/
│  │  ├─ src/
│  │  │  ├─ commands/
│  │  │  │  ├─ mycmd.ts
│  │  │  │  ├─ mycmd2.ts
│  │  │  ├─ index.ts
│  │  ├─ test/
│  │  │  ├─ commands/
│  │  │  │  ├─ mycmd.test.ts
│  │  │  │  ├─ mycmd2.test.ts
│  ├─ otherPackage/