Symptoms
"Simple list widget" always opens Default view even though a view is configured in widget instance options.
Cause
Widget HTML doesn't pass the "view" as a parameter when clicking on "view all" link on the widget. As a result, user is always presented "Default" view.
Resolution
To fix the issue, please make below changes in the widget's "HTML Template" :-
from
<a class="pull-right" ng-href="?id={{c.seeAllPage}}&table={{c.options.table}}&filter={{c.options.filter}}{{c.targetPageID}}">${View all}</a>
to
<a class="pull-right" ng-href="?id={{c.seeAllPage}}&&view={{c.options.view}}&table={{c.options.table}}&filter={{c.options.filter}}{{c.targetPageID}}">${View all}</a>