In my experience you can try out UUID for helping you index your data as compared to using IDs, also you can try querying data with the orderBy laravel method on your model e.g User::orderBy('uuid','desc')->get();.
Using the frontend tool you mentioned Datatables, I do know they have either a sort or ordering method written in, you can check it out here Datatable Sorting
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