[Bug]: Cultivate: Default Navigation block state shows 'Cannot Retrieve Pages' when there are no pages in the site

[jordesign]

Quick summary

Noticed in testing with Cultivate theme - I found this happened through onboarding - so it was the default state when I landed in the Site Editor for the first time. When that happened the default state of the Navigation Block was not as expected.

Steps to reproduce

1a. Go through onboarding with the Cultivate theme, or
1b. Make sure you have no pages in your site, and activate the Cultivate theme.
2. Open the Site Editor (Appearance > Editor)
3. Look at the navigation block

What you expected to happen

To see a default page list, or an 'insert menu' prompt in the empty menu

What actually happened

I see an error stating Cannot Retrieve Pages.

In addition - there is no default menu shown on the front end

Browser

Google Chrome/Chromium, Apple Safari

Context

Empathy Testing

Platform (Simple, Atomic, or both?)

Simple

Other notes

No response

Reproducibility

Consistent

Severity

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

Yes, easy to implement

Workaround details

It's possible still to add a menu manually - it is just the default state that has the trouble.