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

As is often the case, the biggest factor is the next guy who has to work on the system. I try to have the primary key columns first, the foreign key columns second, and then the rest of the columns in descending order of importance / significance to the system.