Imagine this:
You're a player that likes to keep their inventory neat, tidy. On the first tab you keep your foods, potions, small but frequently used items. On another tab you keep your commonly used items like dark and carbonized matter. You also keep on this tab your synthesis items like alumen, or whatnot. And yet on another tab you keep random misc stuff. Ventures, tokens you've been building up to get that weathered weapon from Rowena, maybe some FATE drops like Atma pieces, items used in Beastman dailies. Overall you keep your tabs pretty tidy and where they belong.
You do this with your retainers too, one houses all your crafting materials and each tab has a different set of materials. It works.
Now picture this:
You finish several dungeon runs (Brayflox, Tam-Tara Deepcroft, etc.) for the evening and now your inventory is cluttered with items you just don't need. Maybe they aren't really worth lugging to a merchant to sell. So you start going through picking out what you want to keep and what is worth throwing away. That's when it happens, you scroll down to "Discard" and accidentally hit "Sort". Immediately your inventory is sorted every which way and now you have to spend time fixing everything all over again.
Imagine doing this on a full retainer too and messing the whole thing up. Not an enjoyable moment now is it? I've had this happen to me many times and I'm sure I am not alone in this. How often have you meant to throw something away, or use an item and accidentally hit "Sort" from the list instead? How often have you then had to reorganize your entire inventory?
Now, don't get me wrong as if I'm complaining about there being a sort option. I'm quite glad it exists and have put up with the annoyances of a mis-click just for that reason. However I'd like to request an "Undo Sort" option to be added. For example:
Let's say you sort your inventory but didn't mean to. As long as you don't move/use anything from your inventory you can immediately hit the "Undo Sort" option and it reverts your inventory to the way it was before you hit "Sort". Alternatively even a confirmation pop-up (Which can be disabled under the Configuration menu.) can be added to the option so you can cancel it if you accidentally hit "Sort".
TL;DR - Sorting by accident is a pain, please add in an optional "Undo Sort" or confirmation window that players who don't want it can toggle off.
Thank you!