Can someone explain Vortex' Starfield implementation?

[Citadel535]

I use Vortex but was also using just the plugin text file to manage my plugins. Vortex deployed an extension that now manages it but it takes over the mod sorting. If I hit deploy it ignores what plugins I have on or off and just activates them all. If I sort plugins so that mods that others depend on load first, it takes over sorting and forces alphabetical.

This new extension update doesn't have the option to turn itself off like the prior one did.

It seems like the behavior is sort alphabetically, activate everything, ignore user settings.