Soum
Why Orion follows Safari like a dog follows its tail in circles? Does Orion want to be called the Safari wrapper browser? Or the skin of safari?
None of that really. We follow Safari's lead because Safari is the reference browser on macOS, made by the very manufacturer of the OS you are using. This means that Safari incorporates all HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) and is as native app as you can get. Now, you can argue if Apple made good or bad choices in HIG, but the fact you are using an Apple product means that most of the time you probably approve Apple HIG.
We want Orion to be a native app and feel like a native app. This means following the same guidelines. It is easy to make a precedent and once you go that road, you easilly end up with a browser that looks and feels completely out of place on macOS like Firefox or Chrome (which is mostly because they were originally built for Windows, and just ported the same codebase/UX to macOS). There are plenty of non-native browsers on macOS, and we are not interested in making yet another non-native browser.
Having said that, we are always looking for ways to improve over Safari without jeopardizing HIG. We did that many times already.
So we need a clear argument and users clearly supporting a certain way of doing things. In this case we have a total of one user for this change and one against, so you cna hardly argue there is a strong support for the change.