Gopls breaks go mod tidy though an incorrect patch version dependency on golang.org/x/tools

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Go version

go version go1.20.7 linux/amd64

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

thomas@DESKTOP-B82ERE8 ~/.c/b/_/a/e/o/i/l/source> go env
GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/home/thomas/.cache/go-build"
GOENV="/home/thomas/.config/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOEXPERIMENT=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOINSECURE=""
GOMODCACHE="/home/thomas/go/pkg/mod"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/thomas/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/home/thomas/.cache/bazel/_bazel_thomas/a41610ee02ad9c69b13020a7f1cf3deb/external/go_sdk"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/home/thomas/.cache/bazel/_bazel_thomas/a41610ee02ad9c69b13020a7f1cf3deb/external/go_sdk/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GOVCS=""
GOVERSION="go1.20.7"
GCCGO="gccgo"
GOAMD64="v1"
AR="ar"
CC="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/gcc-12"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/home/thomas/.cache/bazel/_bazel_thomas/a41610ee02ad9c69b13020a7f1cf3deb/external/org_golang_x_tools_gopls/go.mod"
GOWORK=""
CGO_CFLAGS="-O2 -g"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g"
CGO_FFLAGS="-O2 -g"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-O2 -g"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build1786368587=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"

What did you do?

Make the following go file:

//go:build tools
// +build tools

package tools //import "example.com/fake"

import (
	_ "golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports"
	_ "golang.org/x/tools/gopls"
)

go mod init; go mod tidy

What did you see happen?

go: creating new go.mod: module example.com/fake
go: to add module requirements and sums:
        go mod tidy
go: finding module for package golang.org/x/tools/gopls
go: finding module for package golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports
go: found golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports in golang.org/x/tools v0.16.1
go: found golang.org/x/tools/gopls in golang.org/x/tools/gopls v0.14.2
go: finding module for package golang.org/x/tools/internal/persistent
example.com/fake imports
        golang.org/x/tools/gopls imports
        golang.org/x/tools/gopls/internal/lsp/cmd imports
        golang.org/x/tools/gopls/internal/lsp/cache imports
        golang.org/x/tools/internal/persistent: module golang.org/x/tools@latest found (v0.16.1), but does not contain package golang.org/x/tools/internal/persistent

What did you expect to see?

No errors.