Hello. Is there any status on this that is a little more current?

In T2795#83186, @JoshStrobl wrote:

Checked and there's no option for setting folders before files in gsettings, at least in 3.24.0. I'll check again in 3.26.0, but if there still isn't then not much I can do.

That sort type is my preferred view, cannot say for anyone else.
I think it would need to be checked to ensure views are not reset if nautilus or any component of it is updated, it shouldn't.

Yes, am aware.

This issue is becoming a serious problem. We cannot keep hard shutting down, something will break and data will be lost. There needs to be shutdown and/or restart on the unlock login screen. This happens often to me where it either is due to extended lock screen state or apps running when the screen locks. I see this a lot when I have VirtualBox running a virtual os. Which further impacts that virtual machine with the hard shutdown. For me, this is grounds to move onto another Linux distribution.

I had this occur in the last day or two.
The notebook went into normal lock based on default times, when I came back I could not enter the password.
I was creating a Virtualbox VM at the time, this then needed to be hard shutdown, as there is no option to power off at the login prompt.