I had previously been sharing links to publicly view various parts of my database, but after deciding to embed all of them into my website, the embeds don’t copy the sorting I have set within the database.
Airtable embedded views don’t highlight the field they’re sorted by unless the user adds their own sort.
Test for yourself: reverse the sort for that view within the base, then refresh the page with your embedded view. If the sort was reversed there too then Airtable is working as it should.