SharePoint Online news web part - Displaying custom field and sorting

Is this something that is on the roadmap for SharePoint at all?

'Simple' changes like this can lead to some very powerful custom experiences.

As an example, similar to the above, I have a custom date against news called "Return Due" as many of the internal news have actions that people need to complete by a certain date.

I'd love to have a simple list of upcoming deadlines for these actions; and while I can create a web part that is filtered to items where "Return Due" "after" "[Today]" I can't order the list by that date, nor can I opt to show that custom data in the list.