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Other mesh networks such as Eero and soon Luma support hard wiring your sattelites. I think its extremely important Netgear Orbi does the same. Especially for those of us who can.
+1 for ethernet backhaul!!! Definately the way to go.
The way the current system is setup is it has the following limitations:
1. All wireless traffic is funneled back to router which maxes out at a 1GBPS connection. Allowing ethernet backhaul could support 1GBPS connections PER ORBI!, So if you have 3 of them you could conceptually have 3GBPS active at once. In reality though ORBI's access points max out at 867MBPS. But still you would have 3 x 867MBPS of total bandwidth available to you in ethernet backhaul scenario. WIN-WIN.
2. Agree with the single SSID comment. I believe you can do that with systems like the Unifi's WAP's, but you have to toy around with RSSI values and you basically have to be an RF engineer to get it right.
3. If all satellites ran over ethernet backhaul, that would free up RF spectrum (less interference) for actual wireless clients since all that current wireless backhaul traffic would be going over ethernet.