Just 'cause I felt like f$&king around this morning, @jsonbecker, the problem appears to lie in the utter inability to create a menu entry via the native Micro.blog page interface for a page whose content was not generated via that same interface (cc @manton). The old drop-the-link-in-the-content trick no longer creates the entry and redirects alone do not seem to create an entry.

As for mixing menu items created via the interface…

with menu items created outside of the native Micro.blog page interface…

the menu items, themselves, are merged flawlessly: