Now I have a much better sense of the problem, thanks to both for elaborating!
Design Tokens are all about storing design decisions in a way that is agnostic to tools and platforms. Having a different order in different tools could lead to problems related to syncing and shared semantics.
I guess that’s the reason why the Tokens Studio plugin allows editing the tokens order from the JSON, and we are actually planning to do something similar. No specs yet, but we have a user story for the JSON viewer and another for the JSON editor.
I’m not implying at all that custom ordering from the UI is not a good idea. I just think there are some potential challenges we should be mindful of and we will probably start with the most obvious solutions.
