Followed serverless guide but failed to get same results

I was following the guide on creating and deploying a serverless function: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/functions/how-to/create-functions/

• I created a token as per https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/create-personal-access-token/
• I installed doctl by using the wget method for Linux (also tried this whole process on a Mac using brew, just to be sure)
• $ doctl auth init with the API token was successful
• I created a namespace: $ doctl serverless namespaces create --label "meowchik" --region ams and got the output Connected to functions namespace 'fn-0cafc14a-fc8b-4197-8b9c-ac9f6618429c' on API host 'https://faas-ams3-2a2df116.doserverless.co'
• I initialized a test project using $ doctl serverless init --language js meowchik-project and got the output A local functions project directory 'meowchik-project' was created for you. You may deploy it by running the command shown on the next line: doctl serverless deploy meowchik-project
• However when deploying it I get an error: $ doctl serverless deploy meowchik-project/ Error: Invalid project configuration file (project.yml): http request failed: GET https://faas-ams3-2a2df116.doserverless.co/api/v1 Learn more about the project configuration file https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/functions/reference/project-configuration/

I can further isolate this by showing this weird interaction:

1. $ doctl serverless connect helloworldns -> Connected to functions namespace 'fn-1f1df919-32ed-45fd-97f5-82400fd6a65e' on API host 'https://faas-fra1-afec6ce7.doserverless.co' (label=helloworldns)
2. $ doctl serverless status -> Error: serverless support is installed but not connected to a functions namespace (use 'doctl serverless connect')

I’m pretty confused and not sure what to do about this. I haven’t changed any configuration or the project.yml file, everything is pretty much default and followed step by step according to the guide.