def take a look at Page Bundles as @alexandros suggested.
All of this ill probably have to do with your editorial workflow. I had a situation where I wanted to, in a list page, list out the titles of pages that were still a draft with then intention that as they were ready to be published that the Hugo would not only build the pages but link to them. In this case, I also wanted to control the directory structure in a way that (i believe) a headless page bundle would not allow.
Below is the solution that I can up with: