This is likely the same issue as reported here: openstudiocoalition/OpenStudioApplication#722 and due to this SDK issue: NREL/OpenStudio#5230
Bottom line is that OS SDK 3.8.0 removed from methods from the CLI that came from openstudio-extension-gem that were moved to C++ code, but that means every measure that relied on these broke. So a new version was released to the BCL, with a min_compatible
tag of 3.8.0.
Unfortunately, the OS SDK does not consider that tag, so if you use an older CLI, like 3.7.0 (which the OpenStudioApplication 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 use), it will download that new version which is not compatible.