In quick open (ctrl+p) the recently opened files are sorted by recency only until I start typing, then scoring is used instead (only when two files get the same score, recency is used again, see #20546 (comment)).

This is unpleasant on repositories with many files of the same name, for example, we have many READMEs in our monorepo and it's unintuitive why filtering in the recently opened list should change the sort order, or in a bad case, move the item completely out of sight:

I think the natural behavior would be just to sort by recency in this list.

Related issues:

• Unintuitive result scoring with Ctrl-P in recent history Unintuitive result scoring with Ctrl-P in recent history #20546
• Recently opened files is just a bucket and not sorted by recency Recently opened files is just a bucket and not sorted by recency #31591