IDEA Terminals start in last added module - how to change?

Question

My IntelliJ IDEA project includes a selection of modules form the same monorepo.

After I import a new module, new terminals open in the root of the most recently added module, even after restarts. This is not what I want, since I'm still mostly working on the same module as before.

Is this a bug, or am I missing some setting I could change?

I can find no way of controlling what the "current module" is.
The docs only say the terminal starts in the project root by default.
This happens in both the old and the new terminals.

I am aware I can override "start directory" explicitly in the terminal settings, but I want to know how the fallback is chosen, and if it can be controlled.