Too bad you never posted what you had tried.

Looks like it has something to do with Source Control.  Just a guess and I may be wrong.

Are you looking for hard skills or soft skills as both are critical.

Please post the actual execution plan as a .sqlplan file.

Good question, but I agree with everyone saying that using the ordinal position for sorting is a poor choice.  Although I haven't done it, I can see Jeff's point in...

I haven't had that issue with moving from 17.3 to 17.4.  However, I did have to reinstall my RedGate tools when I moved from SSMS 2016.

Thinking more along the lines of extended events, but then I may be wrong.

Perhaps this will help:

declare @DB varchar(1000)
        , @StrSQL nvarchar (max)
        , @SQLParm NVARCHAR(MAX) = '@StartDate DATE, @EndDate DATE'
        , @StartDate DATE --VARCHAR(10)

You know, I don't think that it is that the questions are getting worse.  I think it is that the people asking questions are just in way over their head...