Sierra - From any application, can't sort files in alphabetical order (in column view)

I'm opening a new post because I found some old threads that were closed, but didn't fix my issue.

I'm running Sierra OS 12.6.2 on a Late-2013 Retina MacBook Pro.

Essentially, for some reason in any program where you can open/select a file (going to File/Open, clicking 'browse...', etc), my files will no longer sort by name in column view, which I typically use for navigating. It was working fine this morning but seems to have stopped working after I switched to 'date added' and then back to 'name'.

In effect, selecting 'Name' in the sorting options at this point does the same thing as selecting 'None'. Finder is oddly not exhibiting this behavior. It is sorting by name in column view properly.

Here's what I mean...

From Safari

Same folder in the Finder

The threads I've seen in the past from 2016 were never really resolved. Someone suggested holding 'option' when selecting 'arrange by' to get it to change to 'sort by', but that's only applicable to Finder, not all of these other programs.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!