I'm sorry for the frustration. Unfortunately the experience changed when we had to switch from an outdated/unsupported technology to a newer supported technology.  We're taking the feedback and working on getting things more intuitive/comfortable.

Have you tried creating a custom view first, then sorting that?   Currently the Custom Views remember the sort applied, but the Default Views do not. We'll work on getting the Default Views to Prompt to "Save As Custom View" like before... but hopefully this work around will suffice for now.