Avoid error: Composer requires PHP version (Wordpress)

I'm trying to avoid receiving this error when attempting to use some Google Analytics libraries installed via composer;

Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.0.2"

My PHP version is 8.0.13 but I don't want to upgrade to the latest version (8.1.1) yet because I'm running a few plugins on my WordPress site which aren't compatible with PHP 8.1.1.

I have tried using "platform-check": false in my composer.json but it did nothing. I also tried updating to PHP 8.1.1 but obviously the plugins broke.

Any ideas on how to solve / bypass this?

My composer.json:

{
    "name": "vendor/proj_name",
    "require": {
        "google/apiclient": "^2.0"
    },
    "platform-check": false
}