@nibbleandpeck i may have solved this so thought i would share my solution…
I made a couple of very minor changes to the code on here to REMOVE the sort functionality: https://www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-remove-default-sorting-dropdown/
I switched the “remove_action” to “add_action” and it appears to be working for me.
Drop this code into your functions.php file:
add_action( 'wp', 'add_default_sorting_neve' );
function add_default_sorting_neve() {
add_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_catalog_ordering', 10 );
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_catalog_ordering', 10 );
}