The safari was designed when fountain pens were dead, and either expensively-packaged retirement gifts (Montblanc) or dirt cheap disposable pens for children (safaris, vectors, no-nonsense). Hence the grip designed to 'help' a proper grip, the big child-friendly clip, and the colors.

It's remarkable to me that Lamy still charge as much as they do for Safari's despite them being made from the cheapest plastic, using proprietary converters, and being such a generic stiff-nibbed, cartridge/converter, plastic feed, pen. Everyone has also conveniently forgotten when they tried to cut costs and made a plastic feed that failed catastrophically with alkaline inks. But I've no doubt that part of their marketing is astroturfed, such as posting them incessantly on places like this subreddit.