I believe you can accomplish the behavior you're looking for if you're willing to learn using tagnavi_custom.config to create your own menus, as I am now doing. It's not particularly difficult, you can read up on it in the Database document.
I wanted two menu items, one that would load all of an artist's albums alphabetically, and then sorted by track, and then a second that would load the albums sorted by date, which kind of made more sense to me. Obviously, it assumes you're pretty meticulous about your tags.
I created two format lines:
%format "fmt_artist_album_alpha" "%s %d.%02d. %s" album discnum tracknum title
%format "fmt_artist_album_date" "%04d %s %d.%02d. %s" year album discnum tracknum title
Then, the two corresponding menu items:
"Artist & Album (alpha)" -> artist -> title = "fmt_artist_album_alpha"
"Artist & Album (date)" -> artist -> title = "fmt_artist_album_date"
When you access either of those menus, using a long select press on an artist will allow you to queue up all of their albums sorted the way you want.