Excel File damaged in 2024, but not in earlier versions?

I have a worksheet, I can open it, work on it, save it, etc in earlier versions of Excel (tested in 2010, 2015), yet when I try to use in Excel 2024, it says it is a damaged file.

it asks me if I want to recover all the available archives, when I click yes it says the repaired registry was /xl/drawings/drawing1.xml.

I have tried the trick of changing the file extension to zip and deleting that xml file, yet I cannot open the file because it says the archive itself is damaged.