You can check which version of the cumber-jvm project Katalon uses. See the .classpath file in your Katalon project. Katalon Studio v8.6.5 uses v3.0.2 of the cucumber-jvm library.
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Applications/Katalon Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/io.cucumber.core_3.0.2.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Applications/Katalon Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/io.cucumber.datatable_1.0.3.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Applications/Katalon Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/io.cucumber.datatable-dependencies_1.0.3.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Applications/Katalon Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/io.cucumber.expressions_5.0.19.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Applications/Katalon Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/io.cucumber.gherkin_5.0.0.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Applications/Katalon Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/io.cucumber.html_0.2.7.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Applications/Katalon Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/io.cucumber.java_3.0.2.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Applications/Katalon Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/io.cucumber.tag-expressions_1.1.1.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Applications/Katalon Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/plugins/io.cucumber.junit_3.0.2.jar"/>
The v3.0.2 of cucumber-jvm is very old. The latest version is v7.13.0.
As you see, Katalon Studio is not in sync with the cucumber-jvm project.
It is quite likely that the v3.0.2 had some bugs. These bugs would have been fixed in the later versions; but Katalon Studio is not able to benefit these fixes.
Unfortunately, this issue will be very difficult for Katalon team to fix. They would have to start with upgrading the external dependencies (e.g., to cucumber-jvm.7.13.0). It will inevitably involve a lot of work.
In April this year, @duyluong wrote that they will work on “overhauling” their product to catch up the latest version of various external dependencies;
However we haven’t heard of any progress of the great attempt yet.