Eager Loading not working about navigation HOT 3 OPEN

My workaround for the time being:

{% set primaryNavigation = craft.navigation.nodes('primaryNavigation').all() %}

{% for navItem in primaryNavigation|filter(x => x.level == 1) %}
    {% set childrenNav = primaryNavigation|filter(x => x.level > 1 and x.parent.id == navItem.id) %}
{% endfor %}

And so on.

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Having this issue as well. On a local dev site with only 3 nodes and one subnode:

Without eager loading (children called using .all()):

With eager loading as per docs:

Removing the Navigation query entirely, leaving everything else:

Interestingly enough, ripping everything out of the header file except for this one line:

{% set primaryNodes = craft.navigation.nodes('headerNavigation').level(1).with(['children']).all() %}

Still leaves us at 100ms:

That's odd.

@plumduffer updated my local to 4.3.8.2 and it seems to be fixed, likely related to craftcms/cms#12648:

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There have been some rough issues with eager loading in Craft itself, so be sure to get updated before proceeding further.

However, the lack of eager-loading nodes is a well-known issue. While the nodes themselves can be eager-loaded, the linked-to elements cannot and is at the moment a Craft limitation.

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