External Drives display as folders?

I’ve got a question about external drives display in the folder tree. For some reason, when I add a folder on an external drive, I get a new “Volumes” folder, and then the drive appears as a folder under the “Volumes” folder. So, instead of having a quick view of which drives are connected, I get a bunch of “missing images” question marks on the folders when the drives disconnect.
I don’t get the extra collapsable bar (Under Macintosh HD) as in your video. This happens on several drives every time I’ve tested it!
Any advice?

Hi Victoria! 
Thanks for the reply.  Here's what happens:
Right clicking on "Volumes" shows "Hide this Parent", not "Hide Parent Folder". 
When I click on "Hide This Parent", the entire structure underneath "Volumes" goes away:
Just for a lark, I right-clicked "Pictures", (my top level parent on my internal HDD), and was prompted with this:
which I have not clicked yet.  Because I'm scared.  Is this what I should be doing though?
-j

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