Navigation Component not popping the stack as intended

Question

I have been encountering problems with the navigation component not popping the stack. This seemingly worked as expected until recently, the navigation-fragment and navigation-ui dependencies have not changed. It was originally 2.5.3 and attempted updating to 2.7.6 without resolve.

ext.nav_version = '2.5.3'
// Navigation Component
implementation "androidx.navigation:navigation-fragment-ktx:$nav_version"
implementation "androidx.navigation:navigation-ui-ktx:$nav_version"

Here is how its been done in the nav graph

<fragment
    android:id="@+id/fragmentA"
    android:name="com.example.views.AFragment"
    android:label="@string/a_fragment_title">

    <action
        android:id="@+id/action_fragmentA_to_fragmentB"
        app:destination="@id/fragmentB"
        app:popUpTo="@id/fragmentA"
        app:popUpToInclusive="true"/>

</fragment>

Then its called like this

fun NavController.safeNavigate(@IdRes resId: Int, args: Bundle? = null) {
    currentDestination?.getAction(resId)?.run { navigate(resId, args) }
}

fun NavController.safeNavigate(@IdRes resId: Int, args: Bundle? = null, navOptions: NavOptions?) {
    currentDestination?.getAction(resId)?.run { navigate(resId, args, navOptions) }
}

// Normal way I would use this
findNavController().safeNavigate(R.id.action_fragmentA_to_fragmentB, bundleOf(
            "keyA" to valueA,
            "keyB" to valueB
        ))

// Attempted to manually remove the stack but also doesnt work.
findNavController().safeNavigate(R.id.action_fragmentA_to_fragmentB, bundleOf(
            "keyA" to valueA,
            "keyB" to valueB
        ), NavOptions.Builder().setPopUpTo(R.id.fragmentA, true).build())

What the stack would look like

launcher - start
  login <- move to dashboard, pop stack and set dashboard as the new start
dashboard - new start
  fragmentA <- Should pop the stack moving to fragmentB
    fragmentB <- Using the back button returns to fragmentA and should return to dashboard (fragmentA should NOT be on the stack)