Customizing Drupal's Scheduled Content View
One of the great things about Drupal - especially recent versions, like Drupal 8 and 9 - is that so much of the administration interface is built using Views - which means it's easy to customize it.
I prefer to see Scheduled Content in the order in which it will be published - but that's not how it works out of the box.
The Scheduled Content view (found at xxx) has no Sort Criteria, and no Default Sort Order in the format's Style Options. But it's extremely easy to change that.