I wouldn’t say escalate, I just help out here on the forum mostly because the developer doesn’t have time to get here very much. All I can really do is assign it to him and post a note in the topic.
I can understand wanting to have the fields in the same order that they show up on the front end of the site, would make easier for my clients to understand as well.
If I had time I’d look into how make it happen with a filter of some kind, but right now I already have too many pots on the stove.
If you look in the file /advanced-custom-fields-pro/forms/post.php on line 163 and file /advanced-custom-fields-pro/api/api-field-group.php on line 887 you can see where the styles that hide things are generated.
