How to get around clearing sorting filters after a folder has been opened?

One of the greatest issues our staff has had is using the sorting views in SharePoint.

Let's say the view is sorting folders based on Status:Active. When they open that folder, if the value for those files / folders in that folder aren't also Active, the folder apperas empty (with an easily overlooked tag indicating the applied filter).

While I understand the logic behind why this happens, I can not oversate how horrendous this is as a user expereince.  

It should be either that the view is locked to a root folder path or the view is cleared out whenever another fodler is selected. Or, there may be some other function here I'm not aware of.