Ask HN: What's the best generic UI/UX for user-specified sort order?

For some arbitrary list where you can't rely on an implicitly comparable attribute.

I'm familiar with buttons to move up or down, effectively swapping positions. And draggable cards. Even multi-select of cards to move batches at once.

Is there any good experience once things get to, say, a thousand items?

I'm having a hard time thinking of anything more friendly than (or even comparable to) working with text in an editor..

Are there any interesting, potentially radical approaches that haven't yet become commonplace?