When working on multiple things before committing, I often end up with a long list of unstaged files that should really be split across several commits.
Right now, the only way to figure out which files belong together is to review each diff individually, which gets tedious quickly.
Since related changes tend to happen around the same time, being able to sort unstaged files by date modified would make it much easier to group them into the right commits. You’d naturally see your earlier work clustered together, separate from what you worked on later.