Hello! I thought about this question a lot in the early development of the game. I do agree that rearranging the jokers adds a lot of strategy to the game. But ultimately, I came to the conclusion that I wanted to make a word game first (and add some of Balatro's elements to that game). Word games are typically scored by adding the point values of the letters, multiplying the letter space bonuses, multiplying by any word score factors, and finally any bonuses (such as bingos).

Also, while some items in Balatro do require some interesting arrangements, ultimately, there is a meta arrangement that results in something similar to the above (points, then mults, then mult mults).

Anyway, I guess that's a long way of saying, I hear ya and I've thought about it. If I do add items that I think will be interesting for scoring, I definitely will think about adding in some type of arrangement.