Unfortunately the problem persists even after the removing the cache and environment using the 'rm' command.
I also use Qiime2 on my laptop (MacBook Pro, M1 chip), same version of Qiime2, and noticed it was using the wrong r-png build. I haven't tried to run the dada2 command on the laptop.
Name Version Build Channel
r-png 0.1_7 r41h815d134_1005 conda-forge