I’m absolutely abysmal. I pile everything in like it’s a mountain and then wonder why it doesn’t wash properly 😐

No particular order for loading except cutlery absolutely needs to have an entire basket section per type of utensil.
Sometimes there will be a lone rebel in my house and they will put the wrong type in the wrong section.
This is just unthinkable and wastes valuable seconds of my life when it comes to unloading each cutlery type into the drawer.
It's a rebellion that needs to be stopped but I can't risk over all cessation of dishwasher loading to occur so I say nothing. The inner struggle is real 😂

Hands

I generally start with top rack items, then plates and then silverware in that order.

My dishwasher is my hands can't relate

I'm the dishwasher here.

Yes.

After positioning the oddly-shaped items, the rest are sorted by increasing mass from top to bottom.