I'll defend him a bit and say that I actually did want to do this and have a bug report out to do just this (https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS/issues/70). But I also see what you are saying about inconsistent sorting. That being said I do have a desire for the site to be a version of Windows 10 customized to my styles, such as the desktop icons being sorted the way they are.
Also happy to see you noticed that sorting does indeed work manually still, but on load it's not behaving.
And no, he should definitely not ruin the immersion and put some random default sorting in the blog folder. Bad suggestion.