in my release collection i often sort by artist (since i find that the easiest).
but the artist are not sorted in order of the sort-name (what i would expect, since otherewise, why do we have the sort-name if it isn’t used to sort by name?)
If you look at the screen, the “sort” is just on the column of data you are looking at. It just sorts what it sees. You’d need to add a new column of data for “Artist Sort Order” to get the sort you’d expect.
Well, we’d need some database triggers so that changes to artist_credit_name would generate a new materialized sort name for the artist credit, and either a new table for them or a new column in the artist_credit table, depending on how slow the second is. It’s not trivial, but depending on how much time we have for the schema change this year, we could try to look into it - or a volunteer could, if someone feels strongly enough about it. It’s one of those things that is fairly minor and not super easy, so it gets postponed so other more urgent or simpler things can happen, especially since we still have plenty of unfinished schema change stuff