Normally when a new tab is opened in Hyper it opens at the user's home directory, as is conventional in most shells / terminals.
With hyper-statusline installed, new tabs open in the same directory as the PWD in the tab which is focused when Cmd+T is pressed.
Regardless of which behaviour you or I prefer, this type of configuration / behaviour change is outside the scope of a statusline plugin. At the very least, it should be optional, but really it is for a different plugin – better still, a config option in Hyper...
Normally when a new tab is opened in Hyper it opens at the user's home directory, as is conventional in most shells / terminals.
With hyper-statusline installed, new tabs open in the same directory as the PWD in the tab which is focused when Cmd+T is pressed.
Regardless of which behaviour you or I prefer, this type of configuration / behaviour change is outside the scope of a statusline plugin. At the very least, it should be optional, but really it is for a different plugin – better still, a config option in Hyper...