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Are you intentionally ignoring that the actual names of the files are "11. EpisodeEleven.mp3"? There's whitespaces and a bunch of letters there.
I'm also a professional programmer, and assuming that sorting by numbers code would try to grab the first block of strings until the first whitespace is a big assumption I would not make. I'd say that after trying to convert everything but the extension to a number for sorting it failed so it defaulted to string sorting for everything else.
You explaining that you would only do a numerical sort when the basename of the filename is entirely a number, as if your logical sense translates into a good user experience, is exactly why companies have to hire UX designers instead of just programmers.
If you have Windows 10, I suggest that you play around with filenames with numbers in file explorer and see how they're sorted. Your intuition does not match the average user's expectations in this circumstance.
I know it doesn't, I was countering your logic of "I'm a professional programmer" as if the correct interaction would be obvious to a programmer. The intended interaction requires extra thought and to be more through than the obvious one, as you have described.