I found out further info which may be helpful, I do see what you mean about new user role defaults, but that is not the issue.
I have custom roles on my website, and now that I added woocommerce, anyone with a particular role is being defaulted to the woocommerce “account” page. (I found this out by using the “switch to” in WordPress, when I switch, users only with this one specific role are being taken right to the woocommerce account page).
make any sense? It is somewhat tough to explain