When I add taxonomy - my section page is interpreted as a term

I’m using hugo 0.147.2 (and the new template system).

My content directory looks like this:

./_index.en.md
about
   _index.en.md
   contact.en.md
   mission-vision.en.md
   _index.es.md
   people.en.md
   priorities.en.md
   history.en.md
  movement-work.en.md
getinvolved
   _index.en.md
   forum.en.md
   donate.en.md
   attend-event.en.md
   join-team.en.md

My layouts include both a section.html and a term.html.

At first, the _index.{en,es}.md pages in the about and getinvolved folders were using the section.html layout, as I expect them too based on the directions for how kind works.

However, as soon as I defined a taxonomy in my hugo.toml file, it changed. Now they are using the term.html layout.

Is this expected? Is there a way I can use taxonomy and also ensure my section index pages are recognized as section pages.

Thanks for any light that can be shed on this issue.

Are your page templates under layouts/_default?

It would save us both some time if you provided access to your project repository.

Yes!!! Thanks you for such a quick and helpful response. I neglected to move layouts to _default. When I did that, it worked as expected.

No! With 0.146.0 and later you should NOT have a layouts/_default directory.

It would save us both some time if you provided access to your project repository.