az staticwebapp list fails when using free tier

I am trying to dynamically get the deployment token in my pipeline after making a static web app, to do this i'm running the below script in bash:
APIKEY=$(az staticwebapp secrets list --name $(staticWebAppName) | jq -r '.properties.apiKey')

this is returning that it cannot find my static web app in the subscription. When i was using the standard tier this worked as expected... I even tried az staticwebapp list --subscription and it's returning an empty array. It seems like if i pass --resource-group it works? When i was using standard tier yesterday resource group wasn't required and documentation states that.

**Expected behavior**
I can list static web apps in a sub without resource group when they're free tier

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