Consider deprecating old store API

**Feature request**
It would be great to have sorting for types.

**Use case**
Many users need this functionality for production deployments.

**Implementation idea**
Add a new config option `enable_sorting` with default `false`.

Start by locating the old store API and the configuration handling; no files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Clarify whether the work is deprecating that API, adding type sorting, or both, then define the expected behavior of enable_sorting=false and what tests demonstrate that the requested change is complete.

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