I am getting this error when trying to sync my android studio project built with react native

/Users/ronaldjones/.gradle/caches/8.12/generated-gradle-jars/gradle-api-8.12.jar!/META-INF/declarative-dsl-core.kotlin_module: Module was compiled with an incompatible version of Kotlin. The binary version of its metadata is 1.9.0, expected version is 1.7.1.

Online everything simply says to update my Kotlin version, which I have done in my build.gradle, settings.gralde and currently both

BELOW ARE MY FILES

build.gradle

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "33.0.0"
        minSdkVersion = 25
        compileSdkVersion = 33
        targetSdkVersion = 33
        kotlin_version = "2.0.0"
        // We use NDK 23 which has both M1 support and is the side-by-side NDK version from AGP.
        ndkVersion = "23.1.7779620"
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenLocal()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.1.4")
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.4.2'
        classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
    }
}

allprojects {
  repositories {
   google()
    mavenLocal()
   mavenCentral()
    maven {
      // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
      url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
    }
   maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
  }
}

settings.gradle

plugins {
id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.android" version "1.9.10" apply false
}

rootProject.name = 'ATHApp'
apply from: file("../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesSettingsGradle(settings)
include ':app'
includeBuild('../node_modules/@react-native/gradle-plugin')
include ':@react-native-firebase_auth'
project(':@react-native-firebase_auth').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, './../node_modules/@react-native-firebase/auth/android')
include ':react-native-gesture-handler'
project(':react-native-gesture-handler').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-gesture-handler/android')
include ':react-native-push-notification'
project(':react-native-push-notification').projectDir = file('../node_modules/react-native-push-notification/android')

grade-wrapper.properties

distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.12-all.zip
networkTimeout=10000
validateDistributionUrl=true
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists