Unfortunately I have the same strange stack behavior and opened a ticket (FB8626373).
As OP I've noted that the issue appears only when animated, but in my case both popToRootViewController, popViewController and setViewControllers are impacted.
Tested on iOS 14 beta 7.
Imotep
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