The code I commented out doesn't work because Task. was missing. You provided the solution. Thank you. Anyone know how to mark a topic or thread as closed?

Note that this class is decorated with @MainActor which was somehow dropped in the cut & paste.

Yes, I did and I was surprised to find that it had no effect. This made me begin to wonder about my assumptions. For example, what if for some reason, there is no data to display for that cell? In other words, what if the strings are empty. I don't know how this could possibly be the case but I have to verify my assumptions before blaming it on RxSwift. (Time passes) Problem solved! I verified using the .debug() operator that the data being passed to the binding is intact and correct. However, there was an embarrassingly simple bug in the cell logic that prevented the cell, under certain circumstances, from updating itself based on the model. Nothing to see here folks, move along.