To me, it makes sense to use a default (from Settings) whenever a new album browser is open, regardless of the navigation path. Again, for me, I’m almost always interested in sorting albums by recording date. (See Issue ez-05: Add option to Settings to allow album date sorting by “date recorded”). I don’t think this feature would hinder anybody who doesn’t care about the sort order.
It also makes sense to me to persist the chosen sorting for each instance of the album browser in the navigation stack. So for album browser A, when new browsers or pages are opened (including new album browsers), the sort order is kept/restored so if/when A is reopened by navigating back through the history stack to A via “<” at top left. roon might already do this.