Hej SomeoneElse, thank you for your feedback. However I still believe that a node is much more appropriate here since the vast majority of these ways are longer, and block off two different areas where they function more as a fence. None of the ones I checked even intersected with a path / road. However this particular way was extremely short (only two rocks), and functioned only to block the path with two rocks.
Additionally such barriers become very hard for routers to parse, especially when there are no shared nodes with the correct tags (as was the case here). In fact I was unable to find any barrier paths crossing ways where the shared node was not also tagged.
