Hey everyone,

We’re auditing our WordPress site architecture. Right now, our core pages live at the root level (/service-a/, /offering-b/). We considered moving them into a CPT under a subfolder (/services/service-a/), but taking on 301 redirect risk on live, ranking pages just for "cleaner folders" feels like a bad trade-off.

A few quick questions for technical SEOs and WP devs:
Have you seen any real difference in how Google or LLMs understand a site when using physical subfolders vs. flat URLs backed by good Schema and internal links?

If we run a CPT with a root slug (/) to keep URLs flat while organizing our WP dashboard, are there any permalink or query performance bugs we should watch out for?

What specific Schema properties (like hasOfferCatalog or about) have worked best for you when optimizing for search citations?