It’s an interesting point and I somewhat agree but I think the example takes it too far. The most important information is not the sort column but rather the co

It’s an interesting point and I somewhat agree but I think the example takes it too far. The most important information is not the sort column but rather the country name. If I want to see who is leading, I don’t want to scan to the final column on the page to see the country names. In fact, if I just want to see which country is leading (and I don’t strongly care about the sort order chosen) then I might only look at the country names and ignore the detailed counts entirely. Whereas if I only see the total medal count or gold medal count column, then I basically have no information since I still need to scan to the last column to find the country names they are associated with.