The residential areas in this case should be joined especially becasuse they both have place=village nodes. The presence of the nodes means that they can be recognised as seperate settlements even though their sprawl has resulted in the once seperate residential areas becoming one (the residential area just north of WAY: 282589375 is not visible in this change-set). Aside pleas provide a comment with your change-set. I don't always get it right myself but here you are adding and modifying residential areas but you simply use the default project comment which only mentions highways.
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