adjustment layer moving other layers down

unfortunately i cant share this project. i am finding though that it seems to work like intended if i create a new adjustment layer every time and use that.
i will note that it seems to have retroactively affected some (but not all) of the adjustment layers already in my timeline, as i am currently going back through the entire project and having to change out some of them that looked correct previously. doesnt matter if the have transform, lumetri, gaussian blur etc etc on them, the problem remains identical.

Was that AL created for that sequence? AL's aren't like unto other clips, but they do have framesize/rate data attached to them.