The cloud.artifactUrl() helper is always returning the cloud CDN domain - even locally

[AimeeHendrycks]

Description

On Craft Cloud 2.17.1, the cloud.artifactUrl() helper is always returning the cloud CDN domain - even locally, which is not expected. 2.14.3 correctly returns the local domain.
Attached are screenshots of a test twig template on the different versions.

Additional info

• craftcms/cms version: 5.8.15
• craftcms/cloud version: 2.17.1
• PHP version: 8.2.29

Additional question

P.S. When deploying to Craft Cloud, even if I have the version set to 2.14.3 in composer.lock, it forces an update to 2.17.1. Is there a way around this/to prevent this?

[linear]

CLOUD-468