GraphQL schema mismatch between local/live

Hello with our team we've been experiencing some weird issue where the our GraphQL schema differs from development / production environments which leads to failed queries with errors like:

With the query in question being:

query {
  skillTrees: SkillTrees(where: { character: {in: ["1001"] } } ) {
    docs {
      id
      character {
        id
      }
    }
  }
}

Looking at the schemas from playground for both environments gives this:

(Local)

input SkillTree_character_operator {
  equals: String
  not_equals: String
  in: [String]
  not_in: [String]
  all: [String]
  exists: Boolean
}

(Live)

input SkillTree_character_operator {
  equals: String
  not_equals: String
  greater_than_equal: String
  greater_than: String
  less_than_equal: String
  less_than: String
  exists: Boolean
}

Our payload schema looks like:

      {
         name: "character",
         type: "relationship",
         relationTo: "characters",
         hasMany: false,
         required: false,
         index: true,
      },

We're running Payload 1.8.2 and this does seem to happen with any kind of field that's a relationship, but only on production. Updating to 1.8.3 didn't work either