It isn't emotions though. OSM works on on the ground situation - and the ground situation is that cars can go through the spectator side. I have also crossed this border myself - motorbikes cross the gate and then take a right from the X-ray side, whereas cars go straight onto the roundabout. 

On top of several borders around the world are closed, but that hasn't affected their road classification on OSM, the same applies here. 

One thing I don't understand is that, if you know that people can cross borders from here, regardless of how light the traffic is why you would still change it to a footpath. 

This affects the navigation systems and their maps that rely on OSM, like TomTom and Apple Maps, to name a few. This is G T Road and needs to remain as such. 