I'm not 100% this is just an improvement, nothing is mentioned in the documentation of the sort order here https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Document%20Tree%20Macro#HParameters . The way the parameters are described there sound sounds like the order will be followed and not overwritten by the pinned pages order.
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