Thank you for the detailed response! I understand your thought that these short highways can clutter the map. My concern is that in deleting them, another OSM user’s work is being erased. Referencing the ‘Don’t delete objects that you don’t need or like’ section within the Good Practice page on the OSM Wiki it states ‘you should not remove something just because you do not need it’ (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice). 

We may not see a lot of value in adding these short highways, but since they do exist I think updating the tagging to a more appropriate highway type (whether that be highway=service or highway=path) is a better course of action than deleting the features entirely.