I’d like to add my vote for more support for this:
Some of us are very used to browsing things with a stable chronological order; this helps us use our human spatial “hardware” to keep track of what we have seen. A discourse’s shifting Latest view (coupled with all the other view options, and other UI elements) can feel a bit chaotic and stressful.
And, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in our new discourse understanding and explaining that “Latest” actually has two important variants, “Latest Active/Pinned” which you get if you click the site title, and “Latest Created” which you get if you click the Latest navigation link.
Currently “Latest Created” (?order=created) can be configured as default for the Categories view, but not for the Latest view.
We also quite miss having a “Latest Created/Pinned”. Currently, on Latest and Categories views we can show topics chronologically, or show pinned welcome topics at the top, but not both.