Create Threaded Text in Illustrator Improvements

If you select multiple text boxes in Illustrator then auto-thread them (type>threaded text>create) it threads them but I can't seem to figure out the rhyme or reason to the order in which it threads them. It's not top-to-bottom, it's not left-to-right, it's not stacking order. It might go in order that the text box was created? That's the most consistent thing I can find, and that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. 

Here are some ways I wish auto-threading worked: 

• Defaulted to top-to-bottom; left to right
• Ability to thread text boxes in the order in which they were clicked
• Easier way to reorder threaded text boxes

(I know you can click the in-and-out ports. However, I'm often working in files a beginner designer who didn't understand how to work with type set up. There are so. Many. Text boxes. Haha I have to migrate all those boxes over to InDesign and it's just been a nightmare. In/out ports are tedious, auto-threading doesn't work consistently, and selecting all the text frames does wacky things when copied from illustrator and pasted into InDesign. Sometimes I just export an image and have ChatGPT or Gemini extract all the text, but an imporved auto-thread tool could also do the job. I wrote some scripts that auto-thread text boxes top-to-bottom L-to-R in InDesign, but haven't been able to find a comparable workaround in Illustrator. Suggestions are welcome and appreciated!)