Variant sorting [Again?]

Is anyone having any luck with sorting variant properties in this mighty shiny new UI?
I am using components with icons that I like to sort using my own logic instead of Figma’s, and no matter how hard I drag them (from the side -yes, I know, I know) they are usually sticky? What in the actual sorting fail is this??

Often times -I genuinely wonder- if anyone from Figma is actually using Figma.

This is beyond me, why they did away with the (very) old sorting that was in fact working - old folks will remember the one where variants were a different list with pill-shaped items and you could click anywhere to drag them around. Key word here is around, since if their names were short enough, you could even have two on the same line, and therefore it would take even less space compared to this abomination that in the new UI is not even working anymore.

To add insult to injury, Figma is successfully unable to at least link the sorting of the layers with this abomination. Because you know, you have more space in the layers panel to see more of your variants and sorting in the layers panel actually works (so far). So you could achieve something, and perhaps faster.

But yeah, why bother with this Figma? You go with the shiny new UI. Chop-chop.