I don't know if it's a "reason" or not, but lisp-1 semantics would be more familiar to a language that legions of programmers would be familiar with - JavaScrip

I don't know if it's a "reason" or not, but lisp-1 semantics would be more familiar to a language that legions of programmers would be familiar with - JavaScript. Eich wanted to make Scheme for the web, and having a variable containing a function, no matter where it's placed, would be the least cognitive distance from what people are used to.