Depends how long a day was, or how near the end of the third day God created plants, because plants could presumably have survived a few initial hours without sunlight. Maybe it’s even in some sense better for the plants to install them first then turn on the sunlight rather than the other way round, again, providing there isn’t a long period in between.
It’s also worth considering that ancient people in general knew that plants need sunlight too, as did presumably the people who wrote, selected, and preserved the words of Genesis as scripture. It’s unlikely that they did so in ignorance of the fact that plants need sunlight. So whatever the reason is for the text being ordered the way it is, an explanation that presumes ancient people made some kind of stupid scientific mistake here is pretty unlikely.
It’s also worth considering that ancient people in general knew that plants need sunlight too, as did presumably the people who wrote, selected, and preserved the words of Genesis as scripture. It’s unlikely that they did so in ignorance of the fact that plants need sunlight. So whatever the reason is for the text being ordered the way it is, an explanation that presumes ancient people made some kind of stupid scientific mistake here is pretty unlikely.