Columns "Sort By Name" is actually just "Sort By Date Added"

You are not sorting. You are Grouping.

Set the group by to None, then option-click the button to see the Sort By options.

wraybowling wrote:

At some point, around the time MacOS removed ascending/descending order

as an option, Column view lost the ability to sort by Name. This has

been brought up before but the previous posts weren't clear about what's

actually happening. This is specific to Column view. See the two

screenshots below and you will see that Sort By Name is displaying "window-seat.jpg" between many Screenshot files. That's not alphanumeric. I see this issue operating system wide. Every folder behaves this way. There are no options in Get Info to change how sorting works. There is only this drop down and it does not perform a sort properly. It's been like this for months. FIX IT, APPLE.

Not sure I recognize where these screen shots would of come from..

in Finder what I see:

try changing to list view

you can customize the Finder>View>Customize tool bar— I would get rid of that default group by...