Apple Photo - somewhat confusing

(1) My events have been added from iPhoto to Photos. However, the sort order of the (now Albums) is not what I want, When I open Photo, it shows about 14 Albums *from iPhoto) - but they are NOT the ones I want to see upon opening Photo. How do I reorder the now (albums) by date like they were in iPhoto. Can't figure out how to do it? Should be intuitive and simple.
2. When I select all my Photos, they are in the reverse order of how I want them - I want the newest first - they appear in oldest first format. I want to reverse that sort order???
(3) Lastly, I was prompted to buy additional Cloud Space for 3.99 a month. I'm wondering why as I keep all my full size, full resolution Photos on my Hard Drive - I don't think I need full size images on my Cloud.
Tried to call Apple Care but phone lines were very busy with VERY long wait time. APPLE NEEDS TO PUT OUT A GOOD DETAILED TUTORIAL on the new Photo Program.
Thanks for any help.

They say that they keep the information for 30 days for reorder - I suggest that you keep it - you may want to copy your library and delete everything except the book and its photos as a smaller archive copy
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