Hello, and thank you for your response.
My host is a Linux Centos 7 and I just realized I have to install PHP-FPM package in order to set the system default PHP to 7.4
So even though the package handler in my .htaccess file points to 7.4 :
<IfModule mime_module>
AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php74 .php .php7 .phtml
</IfModule>
The default PHP version is still set to 7.3
I will install the PHP-FPM package make 7.4 the default and try again over the weekend.
Will let you know if that fixes it.
Thanks.