There is nothing wrong with place=village being a node. Please read the wiki before making arbitrary decisions on whether or not an object in OSM is "unnecessary".

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dvillage

Of the 15k place=village objects in the UK, about 99% are mapped as nodes. The reasons for this are in the wiki.

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/place=village#overview