Question About NavMesh.Raycast in Unity 2019.4.8 and later

Probably from the resolution of this issue, NavMesh.Raycast when used in 2D has been inconvenienced.

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...312.740019049.1608599606-141659247.1591584658

I was using NavMesh.Raycast to determine movement over short distances, which was working fine, but an update to Unity changed the behavior.

Specifically, I used to be able to get a break in the NavMesh, but now I can't go beyond one boundary in the mesh.

I'm having a hard time determining if this is a problem that is occurring because I'm using it in 2D.

If it's just movement, I can use NavMesh.CalculatePath or something similar, but I can't get RaycastHit.normal and am struggling to calculate reflections.

This is an irregular way of using the process for AI, but I would appreciate your comments and suggestions.

Attached below are screenshots of the same program running in Unity 2019.4.2 and Unity 2020.2.0.