We were running into the same issue. Wow. Our app was in production and everything was fine, after an iOS update the app becomes unusable for some users. The NavigationLink(destination: EmptyView()) { EmptyView() } hack resolved it for me. I would really appreciate if an Apple engineer could have a look at this. Happy to provide more information.

I would also appreciate a native Pull-to-refresh implementation. @Apple: Any plans to add this anytime soon?