I feel like this has been going on for several versions now. My setting for Default sort for comments is Top, but when I open a post, the sorting method appears to be Hot instead. The image in the post shows what a typical post looks like for me when I open it.
I hesitate to call this a bug right now, as last time I had a problem like this it was user error, so I'm not discounting some conflicting setting that I've overlooked.
This was the problem, though I don't know how I ended up in the situation I was in, as I was stuck on v1.0.301. When I checked the Google Play Store after seeing your comment, there was no update available, and the app page still had v1.0.301 as the latest version. I had no reason to suspect that my app was out-of-date until your post.
For posterity, I also had to join and then leave the beta program before v1.0.309 became available.
I don't think I've seen that but I'll know what to do now if there's a problem with receiving a Play Store update.