For anyone still finding this thread, the correct answer is that you need to check the Outgoing Connections (Client) checkbox in the App Sandbox settings panel.
This entitlement seems to be required to get WKWebView working in AppKit apps. This is missing from the WKWebView documentation, so hopefully this post is helpful for anyone else.
If DTS wants to give me a job, I'd be happy to scour the forums and SO to send suggestions to the documentation team. :-P
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