I'm seeing the same in 1.60 vs 1.59.2:
felix@gemini:~/test$ rclone ls /home/felix/test -vv -L --include 'test2/**'
2022/11/14 11:30:39 DEBUG : Setting --config "/opt/rclone/rclone.conf" from environment variable RCLONE_CONFIG="/opt/rclone/rclone.conf"
2022/11/14 11:30:39 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.60.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "ls" "/home/felix/test" "-vv" "-L" "--include" "test2/**"]
2022/11/14 11:30:39 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "/home/felix/test"
2022/11/14 11:30:39 DEBUG : Using config file from "/opt/rclone/rclone.conf"
2022/11/14 11:30:39 DEBUG : local: detected overridden config - adding "{12rtk}" suffix to name
2022/11/14 11:30:39 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "/home/felix/test" to be canonical "local{12rtk}:/home/felix/test"
2022/11/14 11:30:39 DEBUG : test3: Excluded
2022/11/14 11:30:39 DEBUG : 2 go routines active
felix@gemini:~/test$ ./rclone ls /home/felix/test -vv -L --include 'test2/**'
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : Setting --config "/opt/rclone/rclone.conf" from environment variable RCLONE_CONFIG="/opt/rclone/rclone.conf"
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.59.2" starting with parameters ["./rclone" "ls" "/home/felix/test" "-vv" "-L" "--include" "test2/**"]
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "/home/felix/test"
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : local: detected overridden config - adding "{12rtk}" suffix to name
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : Using config file from "/opt/rclone/rclone.conf"
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "/home/felix/test" to be canonical "local{12rtk}:/home/felix/test"
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : blah: Excluded
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : hosts: Excluded
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : test3: Excluded
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : rclone: Excluded
0 test2/test2file
2022/11/14 11:30:47 DEBUG : 2 go routines active