Composer says package of lower version is required in certain contexts. (Drupal) - drupal

Question

I have a drupal profile called "orange_profile". It requires a bunch of common modules and requires drupal 9. If I go into the profile and run composer update it installs all the modules and core with proper versions (all beta or stable). Running composer depends drupal/core I can see that nothing is stuck below drupal 9.
But when I go to an actual site and try to install the profile it errors stating that the profile requires drupal ~8.0. I cannot get this to change.
Here is the error output:
composer require drupal/orange_profile:dev-2.0.x
./composer.json has been updated
Running composer update drupal/orange_profile
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
Problem 1
- Root composer.json requires drupal/orange_profile dev-2.0.x -> satisfiable by drupal/orange_profile[dev-2.0.x].
- drupal/orange_profile dev-2.0.x requires drupal/core ~8.0 -> found drupal/core[8.0.0-beta6, ..., 8.9.x-dev] but it conflicts with your root composer.json require (^9.1).
Use the option --with-all-dependencies (-W) to allow upgrades, downgrades and removals for packages currently locked to specific versions.
Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json and ./composer.lock to their original content.
Using -W does not help. In fact it sometimes still suggests that I use -W when I am using it.
Here are the composer.jsons:
Orange Profile
{
"name": "drupal/orange_profile",
"type": "drupal-profile",
"description": "Drupal Orange install profile with common modules.",
"homepage": "https://www.drupal.org/project/orange_profile",
"license": "GPL-2.0-or-later",
"require": {
"composer/installers": "^1.9",
"drupal/admin_toolbar": "^2.0",
"drupal/advagg": "^4.0",
"drupal/better_exposed_filters": "^5.0",
"drupal/ckeditor_font": "^1.0",
"drupal/ckeditor_media_embed": "^1.6",
"drupal/coffee": "^1.0",
"drupal/color_field": "^2.0",
"drupal/colorbutton": "^1.1",
"drupal/comments_order": "^1.1",
"drupal/config_inspector": "^1.0",
"drupal/core": "^9.1",
"drupal/ctools": "^3.0",
"drupal/easy_breadcrumb": "^1.12",
"drupal/editor_advanced_link": "^1.4",
"drupal/entity": "^1.2",
"drupal/entity_embed": "^1.0",
"drupal/entity_reference_revisions": "^1.5",
"drupal/field_group": "^3.0",
"drupal/google_analytics": "^3.1",
"drupal/google_tag": "^1.2",
"drupal/honeypot": "^2.0",
"drupal/hotjar": "^2.0",
"drupal/image_effects": "^3.0",
"drupal/imce": "^2.3",
"drupal/linkit": "^6.0",
"drupal/magnific_popup": "^1.4",
"drupal/mailsystem": "^4.1",
"drupal/menu_block": "^1.5",
"drupal/menu_trail_by_path": "^1.1",
"drupal/metatag": "^1.5",
"drupal/orange_starter": "2.0.x-dev",
"drupal/panelbutton": "^1.1",
"drupal/paragraphs": "^1.3",
"drupal/pathauto": "^1.2",
"drupal/schema_metatag": "^1.4",
"drupal/search_api": "^1.8",
"drupal/search_api_solr": "^4.1",
"drupal/simple_sitemap": "^3.8",
"drupal/swiftmailer": "^2.0",
"drupal/token": "^1.3",
"drupal/twig_tweak": "^2.0",
"drupal/userprotect": "^1.0",
"drupal/views_infinite_scroll": "^1.5",
"drupal/webform": "^6.0"
}
}
The site
{
"repositories": [
{
"type": "composer",
"url": "https://packages.drupal.org/8"
},
{
"type": "path",
"url": "../orange_profile",
"options": {
"symlink": false
}
}
],
"require": {
"drupal/core": "^9.1"
},
"conflict": {
"drupal/drupal": "*"
},
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"prefer-stable": true,
"config": {
"sort-packages": true
},
"extra": {
"drupal-scaffold": {
"locations": {
"web-root": "web/"
}
},
"installer-paths": {
"web/core": ["type:drupal-core"],
"web/libraries/{$name}": ["type:drupal-library"],
"web/modules/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-module"],
"web/profiles/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-profile"],
"web/themes/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-theme"],
"drush/Commands/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-drush"],
"web/modules/custom/{$name}": ["type:drupal-custom-module"],
"web/themes/custom/{$name}": ["type:drupal-custom-theme"]
}
}
}
This shows me trying to install just the core package and using a local version of the orange profile but the same happens when I am using the one from the remote repo and core-recommended.
My only hunch is that there is some dependencie down the way which has an odd requirement for something like doctrine as I have seen composer telling me that it's because the core 8.0.0-beta6 requires a specific commit of doctrine. This error appeared a couple times.
Anyone seen similar? I noticed while googling that others got the same or similar errors when trying to install certain modules like drupal/entity.
And one more side note, why can I only see what a package requires when it is installed? It would be more convenient for something like this to see the specific requirements of the profile that are asking for a lower core version.