The /latest view will always show you topics with the newest change of the last post. It is designed to keep track of everything new.
You could use ?order=created to create a topic list, where topic appear in the order they were created. Here is an example for this forum:
https://meta.discourse.org/?order=created
You can also add that link to the top menu with the help of Custom Top Navigation Links
And Custom Homepage for Groups should work to set this as the homepage for everyone.