This is exactly why a tagging system and filtering those tags is super important and cannot be stressed enough.
All the weird sorting as categorization type things fade away once you have tags because curation problems are normally due to whatever method was initially used to categorize/sort said items.
When you no longer have to sort (like how they are obviously using title as the sort key) anything initially because everything has proper metadata tags, the problem then just shifts to the UX person giving fancy buttons for that stuff
And if that is provided, it is a user cull issue, which is what I prefer, controlling what I want to see.