I am diving in deeper here - I think it should still export them as seperate fields as before, not as one field.

20714: Ranking questions export is not user-friendly https://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=20714

But see the feature :
20715: Create 2 other ranking system with the same views ? https://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=20715

There are no good ways to export rankling questions, I worked in a Marketing Company years ago where the export of ranking questions used only one column (like today)

About export system , maybe we need to review some "What we need to have a Question Type in plugin/theme" : add a "How I export the data" is needed in my opinion, but hard to offer with a theme (no PHP function)

We use LimeSurvey in a nonprofit educational setting and have been very happy with it overall, but this latest change really bit us hard. We have a number of teachers who rely on the export of ranking questions with full question text instead of code (as it was in previous versions). We even built Excel macros to help process the old outputs for them and make them more usable. That is all broken now and we're dealing with unhappy teachers and complaints. They only use the system a handful of times a year but it's for tasks that are essential to running their classes.

If we could just go back to the old way exporting question text for ranking columns, it would make a huge difference. At least then the Excel files we built to process that data would work again.

Thanks for all the work you and the other developers and contributors do.

Edit: I mean that we rely on export of ranking questions with full RESPONSE text instead of code (as it was in previous versions).
Our problem is the RESPONSE is only exportable as codes now and not with full response text.
Apologies for the typo.

Fix committed to master branch: http://bugs.limesurvey.org/plugin.php?page=Source/view&id=40917

Fixed in Release 7.7.0+261020