BR - Maybe this is a good time to discuss what you didn't like about the VM changes before and what we can do to accommodate you.
As I recall, you wanted to be able to save column order/sizes without changing your sort order in a View.
In the latest test version, I was trying to allow separate Views that only do Sort and nothing else. But I see that I failed--if you uncheck "Columns in Split(right) Pane", the splitter is removed.