Dunno what others feel, but in my opinion at least from the screenshot this option brings some clutter to an usually very straightforward screen.
This clutter will feel unnecessary and even disturbing if in your playstyle you have zero use for this feature.
As far as I can see, this is really only useful for megamods and you use this for queuing up dozens of items for later research (even so that they don't all fit in a single screen - if they fit in the screen, there is really little need to reorder them) with zero allocations instead of using other research management strategies (such as hiding unnecessary research so the default choice window does not get too cluttered).
I was a bit surprised that this is not a configurable option. I wonder what others feel about this feature.