Families may be uncomfortable with yielding control of their loved ones body to the medical establishment. The question of organ donation is presented as a binary choice to families (all or nothing) and requires a significant degree of trust in the medical community. They may worry that they are unwittingly consenting to donations of germ cells; that part of their loved one may end up in a student lab or that organ donation may delay a funeral.
Families may worry that donation will incur additional costs or that someone will profit from the deceased organs (see Henrietta Lacks and HeLa).
Also making an opt-in decision in any complex situation that requires unanimous consent of what is essentially a committee is typically going to result in no-action.
Knowing doctors I find that fear extremely implausible, but it exists.
The whole problem that "opt-in" organ donation is that most people just do whatever the default is and no actual human decisionmaking takes place, so it's preferable to have sensible defaults. If a human is overriding the default, that's the desired behavior.