Comment by devongovett

This was an intentional choice. Repositioning when an outer element scrolls is pretty janky in some cases because scroll events don’t fire at 60fps. Also it’s not possible at all in other cases, like if the trigger goes completely out of view. We used to close the popover in this case but this caused usability problems. The new behavior of preventing scroll actually matches native platforms like macOS and helps with these issues. I get that it’s a little opinionated but it was thoroughly considered, not just done out of laziness. More details in this answer: https://github.com/adobe/react-spectrum/discussions/3802#dis...