Content organisation on a blog with permalinks

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I’m using the hugo-nederburg theme and I’ve got a content folder that looks something like this:

├───about
│       index.md
│
├───contact
│       _index.md
│
├───post
│   ├───draft
│   │       index.md
│   │       paper-presentation.jpg
│   │
│   ├───work1
│   │       a4-paper.jpg
│   │       index.md
...
│   │
│   ├───work8
│   │       camera1.jpg
│   │       index.md
│   │
│   └───work9
│           birds.jpg
│           index.md
│
└───privacy
        index.md

Is this a sensible directory for a blog?
I want to add posts in my blog with the permalink:

post = "/blog/:year/:slug"

But with this runs into issues when trying to make /blog/ into a list page. I also want \blog\\:year\ to automatically contain list pages. Is there another way to do this without manually creating _index.md pages?

Finally my site still has a /post/ page. How do I remove this?