From the docs:

showHelpOnFail(enable: boolean, message?: string): Argv<T>;

By default, yargs outputs a usage string if any error is detected. Use the .showHelpOnFail() method to customize this behavior.
Params:
enable – If false, the usage string is not output.
message – Message that is output after the error message.

We are using it in the following manner:

export const builder = function (yargs: yargs.Argv): yargs.Argv {
  return yargs
    .commandDir('feedback-commands', {
      extensions: ['js'],
    })
    .strict()
    .showHelpOnFail(false, `Use ' --help' for usage`)
    .demandCommand();
};

However, the string passed in the parameter message is never displayed. Only the error message Not enough non-option arguments: got 0, need at least 1 is being displayed.

To be clear, we want to not display the help page but print a string after the error message instead.

PS: The string also doesn't get displayed when the parameter value is set true since --help output instead.

We are on version 17.0.1 but I tried with 17.0.3 as well and same result.