How to FULLY edit the category pages for a good SILO structure

Hi guys
I would like to create a website in which every post is about a certain aspect of a city.

for the structure of the site I imagine it like a classic silo:

1. Homepage
2. Categories
3. Subcategories (or maybe tags)
4. Posts

The link structure should then be:

1. example.com/
2. example.com/category/
3. example.com/category/subcategory
4. example.com/category/subcategory/post_name

I know how to do that in Wordpress (permalink stettings):

BUT

The only issue is that the category or tag pages are not editable (you can only edit the title and description).
I would like to edit them like gutemberg pages, adding pictures, shortcodes etc.

How can I do this? How can I edit category pages in gutemberg?

I tought of simply redirecting each category page to a new page created by me,like this:

redirect

• example.com/category/subcategory

to

• example.com/category_page (page created manually)

Is this a good solution?
Will the silo structure work well? (meaning: will each post pass the link juice to the page named after the category?

Any advice is very appreciated

anyone?

*last bump*

no forwarding - bad solution. the best solution is to simply edit/create your own custom archive templates with php or i believe you can create new ones via gutenburg if thats what you are comfortable with.

you could also use something like beaver builder's themer. i believe it enables you to design all aspects of wordpress template a template ie custom archive/category/tag page layouts and whatnot. its gotta be the THEMER plugin though, not the beaver builder theme.