[Solved] CakePHP 3.5 Shell suddenly stopped working

To answer my own question, and for anybody who is having trouble, I managed to find the answer to this myself.

Some reason unknown to me, the server php config had been updated, and now register_argc_argv was set to Off.

I re-enabled this and the cron jobs are working again.

register_argc_argv = On

This edit was made to /opt/alt/php56/etc/php.ini