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  The introduction of SwiftUI changed the declarative UI landscape, but its initial routing mechanism,   NavigationView , was fundamentally flawed for complex applications. If you have ever tried to handle a deep link that requires pushing three specific views onto the stack, or tried to pop back to the root view programmatically using a chain of   @Binding   booleans, you know the pain. That approach is dead.  NavigationView  is deprecated. The boolean-flag spaghetti code used to manage navigation state is no longer necessary. Modern iOS development demands  data-driven navigation . This post details how to decouple your routing logic from your view hierarchy using  NavigationStack  and the Observation framework, allowing for O(1) complexity when manipulating navigation history. The Root Cause: View-Coupled State The fundamental architectural failure of  NavigationView  (and  NavigationLink(destination:isActive:) ) was that it...