Is CKRecord's subscript magic?

Using Swift
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I tried to write a wrapper around CKRecord so that I can use CodingKey enums instead of string literals when referring to record fields. I get casting issues that don't make sense.

public struct RecordView<K: CodingKey> {
    let r: CKRecord

    // public subscript(_ key: K) -> CKRecordValueProtocol? {
    public subscript(_ key: K) -> CKRecordValue? {
        get { r[key.stringValue] }
        set { r[key.stringValue] = newValue }
    }
}

With that, I get a compiler error trying to assign to it:

view[.isActive] = true
// error: Cannot assign value of type 'Bool' to subscript of type 'CKRecordValue?' 
// (aka 'Optional<__CKRecordObjCValue>')

But it works for a raw CKRecord, which appears to have the exact same type for the subscript (CKRecordValue?, aka __CKRecordObjCValue?)

rec["isActive"] = true

If I go with other type for the subscript (CKRecordValueProtocol) then I get runtime errors trying to read the bool.

view[.isActive] as! Bool
// runtime error: Could not cast value of type 'Swift.Int64' (0x7fff89306878) 
// to 'Swift.Bool' (0x7fff89301230)

Is it possible to write something in Swift that behaves like the CKRecord, or is it using some Objective-C magic that I can't replicate in my wrapper subscript?