The issue here is not in the direction of the text, you can see in your picture two very similar vertical texts and see that there are no problems with reading in both directions.
The issue here is that this text is not just by itself but is a caption to some element. And there is some feeling of what this text is attached to.
For an experiment, look at the following and answer which of the rectangles the text belongs to.
I am sure it will seem to you as follows,
and not as this last one.
That’s why the tabs in Blender feel flipped.