VSTS extension autoupdate to v4.4.0, fails build with 'not given a value for the required parameter "Language"'

There seems to be 2 threads for the same issue, the other being: Azure Devops Build fail with .deployproj with missing parameter "Language" error

Not sure if these can be merged.

My point in the other thread was, making dev changes in ‘x’ number of projects as a work around is not viable. For us it affects each project with a docker-compose.dcproj file. This is 30+ of our repos needing changes, pull requests, approvals etc and going to be far to time consuming as a work around. Hoping for a fix from sonar, or a workaround that can be applied in our azure dev ops task group (common task group for all builds).