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

The only reason I can think about is for debugging and fire-fighting. We have a table whose "name" column's appears about 10th on the list. It's a pain when you do a quick select * from table where id in (1,2,3) and then you have to scroll across to look at the names.

But that's about it.