Its almost been 2 years since the initial post, and still no tab grouping or tab islands.
Opera GX has had an entire aesthetic reboot, new features, many things. However the one thing that the browser still lacks that nearly every other mainstream browser has is tab groups
(Opera has tab islands, Chrome has tab groups, Firefox has Panorama, Vivaldi has tab stacks, safari has tab groups, Microsoft Edge has tab groups, Brave has tab groups, Maxthon has tab groups, even Internet Explorer used to have tab groups.)
Most browsers have this feature for good reasons: minimized tab groups can be put in a 'sleep mode' so those tabs don't take up as much resources, the organizational aspect of them, the aesthetic aspect of them. There's so many benefits to having them, yet the browser that seems to pride itself on being the best for resource management, aesthetics & customization, and brands itself as the browser for gamers, seems to leave out a major organizational tool. It's just odd to me.
I understand that a product unfinished shouldn't be released, however when it's such a long requested feature that has already been out on another platform (even if the other platform is still in beta) for over 2 years, it feels less like they have been unable to get it to work and more like they're avoiding it's addition.