Is there any reason to worry about the column order in a table?

Question

I know you can ALTER the column order in MySQL with FIRST and AFTER, but why would you want to bother? Since good queries explicitly name columns when inserting data, is the

Answer 1

Some badly-written applications might be dependent on column order / index instead of column name. They shouldn't be, but it does happen. Changing the order of the columns would break such applications.