I think rather my point is that it's not a pain in the ass to use, and the way it exists now makes my experience better while autosorting and the other suggestions would make it significantly worse.

To give an example: I have no idea what's in my alchemical pouch, because it gets autosorted in there. What's it for? No idea, it's all handled automatically. Sometimes I get to craft new useful potions/elixirs/oils for little apparent reason. This also means I can't go hunting for useful crafting materials because I don't know what I need, it's obfuscated. Well, that's not entirely true, I know what hyena ears are for because I wanted to know how to get more speed potions. But that's the point, because of automation, I know next to nothing how the alchemy system works. For all I care, it could roll a die once per long rest to determine if you can craft a certain potion or not, it would make no difference. But someone put time and effort into making the system that exists.

For the rest of my inventory it's different. I care about what items get in my inventory. Which ones stay in there and where the others go. Who gets oils? Who gets bombs? Where do I go with heavy armor? I decided all that, I solved those issues for my party of characters, and I care about what all of these things are and what they are for. It is satisfying setting up a manageable system and organizing my party to be effective and to get the right things in the right place to be used.

Imagine if I knew which plants are used to craft poisons and I had a party that doesn't care about poisons, I wouldn't have to bother with those plants while exploring. This would allow me to further emphasize/role play my party's decisions in the world.

Automation just makes you gobble up everything only to be confronted with an inventory where nothing makes sense to you, which helps make it feel like a mess. A system where you understand what things are for which helps you avoid hoarding and making a mess is a thousand times more enjoyable, and you make such a system by not automatically putting everything away for convenience.