For most projects, sorting leads to prioritizing, which is an anti-pattern. For those who choose to eschew proper software development practices, it is nice that Projects is its own thing.
I don't think that prioritizing in general is an anti-pattern. You will do things before other things and you need to choose what to do first. The criticism in the article was about bad prioritization. With GH Projects you can have the liberty to queue issues however you may see fit.
The anti-pattern is premeditating priority. It is true that you have to consider all angles and ultimately determine where to start, but once you've done that it makes no difference where an issue lies in a list.
It’s more than that though. Once the list is sorted, the next time you come back to it, the list is still more or less in the right priority. So the work for prioritization becomes easier.
