18c: Order by in WITH clause is not preserved

For a previous post I’ve run on 18c a script of mine to get the V$MYSTAT delta values between two queries. This script (new version available on GitHub) generates the queries to store some values and subtract them on the next execution. But I had to fix it for 18c because I relied on some order by in a CTE which is lost in 18c.
The idea was to get the statistic names in a Common Table Expression (CTE):

with stats as (
select rownum n,stat_id,name from (select stat_id,name from v$statname where name in (&names) order by stat_id)
)

and query it from different parts of the UNION ALL which generates the script:

select 'select ' from dual
union all

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