Thank you @kwilson , great to hear you’re enjoying Origami Navigation and its customization options!
The reason the Navigation requires to be manually enabled per site is because when you add it, at first it would appear blank until it’s connected to the appropriate navigation source (hub or another site). We want to avoid showing blank navigation on every single page in the tenant as many Origami users would not be happy about that.
That said, there is a solution we can recommend for you. Many customers use PowerShell to automate adding the navigation web part to existing sites in bulk. This would be done by your IT. This approach can save a significant amount of time for large deployments.
Thanks again for this suggestion. It’s a great idea, and we’ll keep this suggestion open for future consideration, if the better approach becomes available.