Looks to me as though you never used View>Sort by ... in which you can select the column by which you want to sort - even if it is not in the current view. You only have to include the preferred data somewhere as a column.
The point that other users who used the randomizing function would have to learn a new behaviour is still valid.
If I look at the repeated support pleas which ask where the user-defined genres have gone and a special HowTo had to be created to reduce the number of repeated explanations, I rate the modification of an established function as a really bad idea.