How to mark a templeted set of Project Management folders as empty until they aren't?

[BrianC72gt]

As wearer of many hats at a small powerline construction company, I oversee our Google Workspace  shared folders.

Our PMs love to create new projects with dozens of empty folders several layers deep. It feeds their need to create a sense of order on chaos (no judgments).  This drives the rest of the team crazy trying to find contents that may - or may not - be hiding in there somewhere.

Is there a way to make a templated set of folders - for instance:  New Project template - easy to identify as empty until an actual file is saved in it or one of its subdirectories?

Thanks in advance,

Brian