I had this with my M2 MacBook Air trying to read a Sandisk Extreme SSD. I solved it by using an Apple Thunderbolt cable which came with my Apple Studio Display.
None of my other Apple cables (usb-c to usb-c) worked with the drive which works with other Apple devices.
This wasn't something which was introduced with 13.2 for me - I had a similar issue with the last version of macOS and another SSD drive.