[Plugin: The Events Calendar] events_get_events_link() uses "category" in URL

I was editing my own version of single.php and noticed that the return link was using /category/[events_page_name].

This is odd because neither my permalink structure nor my site setup uses categories this way–the post obviously exists in an events category, but everything is called from a Page and my permalink is /%postname%/. (I tried editing the template_tags.php file myself but am afraid to break something else that uses this.)

Additionally, the events_get_events_link() is returning me to a grid view even though it seemed from very old forum threads that this had been fixed.