NavigationStack does not render if child view contains a conditional

I am trying to use SwiftUI's new NavigationStack/NavigationLink pattern but am running into an issue if the view I am navigating to has a conditional render (just a simple if statement) in it, it does shows the yellow triangle error icon and does not render the child view. If I remove this conditional statement, the view renders fine and the navigation works correctly.

I am able to reproduce this with a minimal example:

import SwiftUI

struct Thing: Identifiable, Hashable {
    let id: String = UUID().uuidString
    let name: String
    var description: String = ""
}

struct ContentView: View {
    let things: [Thing] = [
        Thing(name: "Thing 1", description: "Something new"),
        Thing(name: "Thing 2"),
        Thing(name: "Thing 3", description: "Something blue")
    ]
    
    @State private var path = NavigationPath()
    
    var body: some View {
        NavigationStack(path: $path) {
            VStack {
                ForEach(things, id: \.self) { thing in
                    NavigationLink(value: thing) {
                        Text(thing.name)
                    }
                }
            }
            .navigationDestination(for: Thing.self) { thing in
                DetailView(path: $path, thing: thing)
            }
            .padding()
        }
    }
}

struct DetailView: View {
    static let tag = "ListView"
    
    @Binding var path: NavigationPath
    
    let thing: Thing
    
    var body: some View {
        NavigationStack(path: $path) {
            VStack {
                Text(thing.id)
                Text(thing.name)
                if !thing.description.isEmpty {
                    Text(thing.description)
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

The issue seems to be with this block:

if !thing.description.isEmpty {
    Text(thing.description)
}

If I remove this, the navigation works correctly. With this simple if statement, the navigation will not render the child view.

This is reproducible using Xcode 15.2 with the simulator running iOS 17.2

Behavior with conditional:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/NTsh7.gif

Without conditional:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/l8Obo.gif

What am I doing wrong? Is there a piece of this puzzle that I am missing or misusing?