The plugin fails to take the first load position when it’s in second.

Thanks for this. The reason it’s currently 1 and not 0 is so that we don’t run into a constant battle with any other plugins that attempt to do the same thing. Otherwise you’ll have a constant swapping of positions, which we see as detrimental. In the vast majority of cases, this wont pose a problem, but for the rare case where another plugin tries to do the same, we know they don’t try to play fair, and so we opt for the better running of the site.

Hope that makes sense.

Ah, thanks for the explanation. What would you do in this case? Just manually reorder them once?

$ wp option get active_plugins
array (
  0 => 'cloudflare-flexible-ssl/plugin.php',
  1 => 'redirection/redirection.php',
)
$ wp plugin install advanced-custom-fields --activate --quiet
$ wp option get active_plugins
array (
  0 => 'advanced-custom-fields/acf.php',
  1 => 'cloudflare-flexible-ssl/plugin.php',
  2 => 'redirection/redirection.php',
)

Yep, just reorder once and hopefully acf won’t resist