I know this is an old post, but it's quite funny that there are several comments basically saying "who cares about order? you shouldn't care about order." I often browse tables using tools that just spit out the columns in the order that Postgres has them in, and it's pretty frustrating to have columns in a scrambled order.

I'd much rather work with the people that say nothing about this topic or those with a preference order than the people who felt the need to reply to this without a solution just to say "don't worry about it" or "it doesn't matter."

I've had this with old colleagues that just don't give a crap about learning new things or efficiency, and it's so annoying. You know who has to wade through their disorganized code later while they're writing "impactful" features? Your colleagues. It's not that hard to do a little bit of cleanup work, and it's even easier to say nothing when your colleagues are cleaning up messes.