If you look at the access levels in any filter then you will see that there appears to be no logical order. It is not alphabetical or hierarchical or by ID.

Looking into this further it would appear that the "sort" is based on the value of ordering in #__viewlevels

Here we can see that in a clean install

So the order they are displayed in is the illogical Public, Guest, Super, Registered, Special

I like order. Dont care what order as long as there is some logic behind it

I thought about changing the ordering values in the DB but thats no good as new access levels are always created with an ordering value of 0

It looks to me as if the ordering column is a remnant of something either no longer used or never implemented ** but ** it is being used in the queries and that is preventing any logical sorting order.

To get some order back I thought we could just Change the install data to give all of these an ordering of 0 and then they would be alpha sorted which is true in /index.php?option=com_users&view=levels but not in the filters.

Not something I have been able to resolve with my skill level but I would have thought a real developer could find and fix it easily.