How can I change the sorting of CPT archive pages in themer

Beaver Themer
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I’m doing a book list on an authors website using BB Theme, Themer and Pods.
I let the CPT archive for “Books” be controlled by themer.
I use a post module set to “Main/Primary query” to list the books dynamically based on the URLs for the various archive pages. It get the expected output whether I use the CPT’s general archive URL or some specific category archive page.

But I can’t control the sort order or the limit (records per page).

The limit seems to follow the default maximum number of blog posts that is set in WordPress core (Options → Reading). But the sorting is nowhere to be controlled. Am I missing something here?

I know this can be covered with some filtering snippet, but it would be nice to control this in themer or in the post module, when using the Main Query.

PS: I fould this feature request. But I can’t see that it has been implemented: Filter options for the main query (Post module)

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As per the answers in the other thread, WordPress controls the main loop, to override that you will need to override the main loop with the usual pre_get_posts filter