Interesting. The change made no change on the storefront that I can find. It DID fix a separate issue on featured when selecting a product would randomly change the sort order but could mean that what you selected was on the next page. Under add by selection, it changed the sort to Product Name Alpha ASC. So kinda getting there, but my goal is still for add by selection to be product_id DESC. Actually, as long as I'm begging, the ideal would be date added descending, but assuming we don't have that bit of data here, id should be close enough.

Search is great, but most of the time the user want to go put the 10 new products she added on featured or special, so having them at the top is her ideal.