persistence.nvim not restoring windows layout

[amitlevy21]

Hi,
I have the following layout:

when I quit by pressing <space>qq I exit with session saving.
however, when I reopen lazyvim, press s to restore session, I only get the file buffer restore without the term and neotree windows, why?

from docs, full spec of persistence.nvim: https://www.lazyvim.org/plugins/util
:lua vim.pretty_print(vim.opt.sessionoptions:get()) output is:
{ "buffers", "curdir", "tabpages", "winsize", "help", "globals", "skiprtp", "folds" }

thank you