RSpec any_args matcher failing with wrong number of arguments?

Question

I've added the following allow statement to spec_helper.rb to fix an issue in my codebase where tons of specs had added expect().receive on the metrics class making tests brittle to new metrics calls in underlying classes.

allow(MetricsClass).to receive(:increment).with(any_args)

Unfortunately, I'm running in errors

 ArgumentError:
   Wrong number of arguments. Expected 1, got 2.

The function definition:

def self.increment(counter_name, by: 1, **tags)

The line in the code where this failure happens:

  MetricsClass.increment("string", **info)

Info itself is a hash

puts info
{"class/method"=>true}

ruby 2.7.6 rspec 3.12.0

Relevant RSpec configuration:

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.mock_with :rspec do |mocks|
     mocks.verify_partial_doubles = true
  end
end