diff --git a/cmd/tofu/commands.go b/cmd/tofu/commands.go
index 0a6cc5b81e..f314c2f1f6 100644
--- a/cmd/tofu/commands.go
+++ b/cmd/tofu/commands.go
@@ -88,10 +88,11 @@ func initCommands(
 		WorkingDir: wd,
 		View:       view.SetRunningInAutomation(inAutomation),
 		SystemArgs: arguments.System{
-			RunningInAutomation: inAutomation,
-			CLIConfigDir:        configDir,
-			PluginCacheDir:      config.PluginCacheDir,
-			GlobalPluginDirs:    globalPluginDirs(),
+			RunningInAutomation:       inAutomation,
+			CLIConfigDir:              configDir,
+			PluginCacheDir:            config.PluginCacheDir,
+			GlobalPluginDirs:          globalPluginDirs(),
+			AllowExperimentalFeatures: experimentsAreAllowed(),
 		},
 
 		Services:        services,
@@ -113,8 +114,6 @@ func initCommands(
 		ProviderDevOverrides: providerDevOverrides,
 		UnmanagedProviders:   unmanagedProviders,
 
-		AllowExperimentalFeatures: experimentsAreAllowed(),
-
 		// ProviderSourceLocationConfig is used for some commands that do not make
 		// use of the OpenTofu configuration files. Therefore, there is no way to configure
 		// the retries from other places than env vars.
diff --git a/internal/command/arguments/system.go b/internal/command/arguments/system.go
index a8e568cd0e..14dcd49218 100644
--- a/internal/command/arguments/system.go
+++ b/internal/command/arguments/system.go
@@ -28,4 +28,18 @@ type System struct {
 
 	// GlobalPluginDirs contains additional paths to search for plugins
 	GlobalPluginDirs []string
+
+	// AllowExperimentalFeatures controls whether the current build of OpenTofu
+	// has experimental features enabled.
+	//
+	// In normal code this would be set by package main only in builds
+	// explicitly marked as being alpha releases or development snapshots,
+	// making experimental features unavailable otherwise. Test code may
+	// choose to set this if it needs to exercise experimental features.
+	//
+	// Some experiments predated the addition of this setting, and may
+	// therefore still be available even if this flag is false. Our intent
+	// is that all/most _future_ experiments will be unavailable unless this
+	// flag is set, to reinforce that experiments are not for production use.
+	AllowExperimentalFeatures bool
 }
diff --git a/internal/command/meta.go b/internal/command/meta.go
index 93aacbc339..513e8d72ed 100644
--- a/internal/command/meta.go
+++ b/internal/command/meta.go
@@ -144,24 +144,6 @@ type Meta struct {
 	// just trusting that someone else did it before running OpenTofu.
 	UnmanagedProviders map[addrs.Provider]*plugin.ReattachConfig
 
-	// AllowExperimentalFeatures controls whether a command that embeds this
-	// Meta is permitted to make use of experimental OpenTofu features.
-	//
-	// Set this field only during the initial creation of Meta. If you change
-	// this field after calling methods of type Meta then the resulting
-	// behavior is undefined.
-	//
-	// In normal code this would be set by package main only in builds
-	// explicitly marked as being alpha releases or development snapshots,
-	// making experimental features unavailable otherwise. Test code may
-	// choose to set this if it needs to exercise experimental features.
-	//
-	// Some experiments predated the addition of this setting, and may
-	// therefore still be available even if this flag is false. Our intent
-	// is that all/most _future_ experiments will be unavailable unless this
-	// flag is set, to reinforce that experiments are not for production use.
-	AllowExperimentalFeatures bool
-
 	// ----------------------------------------------------------
 	// Protected: commands can set these
 	// ----------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/internal/command/meta_backend.go b/internal/command/meta_backend.go
index a2314612dc..a6995f5d4d 100644
--- a/internal/command/meta_backend.go
+++ b/internal/command/meta_backend.go
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ func (m *Meta) Backend(ctx context.Context, opts *BackendOpts, enc encryption.St
 		opts = &BackendOpts{}
 	}
 
-	if m.AllowExperimentalFeatures {
+	if m.SystemArgs.AllowExperimentalFeatures {
 		// TEMP: While we're in early development of the new language runtime
 		// we have an experimental shim to enable it using an environment
 		// variable, but that's allowed only in builds where experimental
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ func (m *Meta) selectWorkspace(ctx context.Context, b backend.Backend) error {
 func (m *Meta) BackendForLocalPlan(ctx context.Context, settings plans.Backend, enc encryption.StateEncryption) (backend.Enhanced, tfdiags.Diagnostics) {
 	var diags tfdiags.Diagnostics
 
-	if m.AllowExperimentalFeatures {
+	if m.SystemArgs.AllowExperimentalFeatures {
 		// TEMP: While we're in early development of the new language runtime
 		// we have an experimental shim to enable it using an environment
 		// variable, but that's allowed only in builds where experimental
diff --git a/internal/command/meta_config.go b/internal/command/meta_config.go
index 2cd1f42cee..19c0fe9025 100644
--- a/internal/command/meta_config.go
+++ b/internal/command/meta_config.go
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ func (m *Meta) initConfigLoader() (*configload.Loader, error) {
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
-		loader.AllowLanguageExperiments(m.AllowExperimentalFeatures)
+		loader.AllowLanguageExperiments(m.SystemArgs.AllowExperimentalFeatures)
 		m.configLoader = loader
 		if m.View != nil {
 			m.View.SetConfigSources(loader.Sources)