Digital Light & Color

The branches can be moved around within browser. Is this purely cosmetic in all cases?

The reason I'm asking is that workspace scripts don't seem to preserve the order if changed and revert to the creation order when reloaded.

Yes, the order is totally cosmetic.

Transformations are saved by an algorithm that traverses the image tree making sure that any transformation comes after all the transformations it depends on, and this usually does not preserve the original order. I could probably add some extra information to script files to support restoring the original order, but it really doesn't matter.