Auto Package Duplication in Test Directory of Android Studio

I was preparing some tests for my module in android studio and everything was working fine, but yesterday when I opened my project again, I found an auto-generated copy of my test package.

when I tried to delete it, my original package got deleted with it.

today I tried to create a package again and the problem is still persisting, and it is only occurring in the "tests" folder

structure at Android level: Duplicate at Android level


structure at Project level: only one package at Project level


I found a similar question here but it defers a bit: link
he found the problem was due to one of his dependencies which were auto-generating the code, but my project structure was fine for a week, the problem occurred just recently. and I've hard-coded the dependency versions so there's no way it might have happened due to an update.

Although Just in case, This are my dependencies:


Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?