Why is it useful?
Because related objects would be in a known, predictable sort order (rather than the current random).
eg we have eg tag 1A-4001, which has 361 related tags. If the related tags were sorted it would be very easy to visually look through the related tags for a specific related tag.
Who would benefit from it?
Most likely every single customer and user of ALIM - I can't believe you don't already have this? Suggests your developers don't test like real end-users/customers.
How should it work?
Add a couple of additional properties to the layout relationship columns, to specify: 1) sort priority, 2) sort order.
eg sort priority is to specify the sort order of columns if there are multiple sort columns, sort order is asc/desc per column