I prefer using public_transport=platform when there some distinct area than can be considered a platform and when one has time and patience to add other public_tranport stuff (mainly the stop_position and stop_area) as well. highway=bus_stop is a valid way of marking bus stops and Osmose shouldn’t report lack of public_tranport=platform as a bug.

Thank you for the explanations. I’m sorry for reverting your changes, I’m not against your contributions, we both aim to improve the map, but this is one of the cases our views may be not exactly compatible.