IMO, top of the list ought to go to those who's labor earned subscriber dedication, not for the few finding it easier to sort..
When I was working in HTML the numbers showed up better and made it easier to work with. Now that I am using Brumby's spreadsheet it is now harder to work with the numbers.
For example:
I added a name given by a forum member and when I pasted the info into the sheet strange things started to happen. When I Paste Special the info, some cells shifted and threw out the links. It took me 1/2 hour to figure out that since I was adding a dup strange things happened. If it were easy to see the names then I would have seen the name was already there. It was the number of subs that threw me off, there was a big change in the number from the original addition to the new attempt so I did not see the dup.
Also I think it less likely someone will post a dup if it is easier to find the name since that does not change but the number does. I assume the original poster did not see the dup just like me.
So it is simply easier to maintain if sorted on the YT name. I am working to make it as simple as possible to maintain because of the size. There's been some features that I would like to make but they would make it harder to maintain so I backed off. Brumby is also working on his spreadsheet to make it easier to maintain.
As far as landing on the YT Home page and seeing those annoying self playing videos. I think most people can deal with them because they are only looking at one YTer at a time and not many like you or me. If landed on the Video page then the number of subs cannot be seen. This will make it harder to update the subs. It took me several hours to update the subs and I think it would have taken me twice as long if I had to scroll on each member. I agree with you the videos are very annoying but it makes it easier to maintain if the link lands on the Home tab where the subs are visible. Scrolling takes a long time when doing almost 200 names.
Your idea of getting rid of links to members made it easier to maintain so I got rid of member links. Thanks