Setting quiet loglevel with gradle.properties has no effect

Hi. I’m attempting to set the loglevel to quiet (the same as supplying the “-q” or “–quiet” args) via gradle.properties, but it doesn’t appear to be working as expected:

$ cat gradle.properties
org.gradle.logging.level=quiet
$ ./gradlew tasks
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.3-bin.zip

Now compare that to using the quiet argument:

$ ./gradlew -q tasks
(no "Downloading" log message is output)

I feel like I’m missing something but I can’t figure it out. Got any suggestions to hide that “Downloading” message via gradle.properties?