> By deleting them, the history of that way is also not covered. 

Not really true. OSM database hold history of also deleted objects, see https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/533260064/history

> Hi Mateusz, in this area, we normally tag "gone" ways with lifecycle prefix disused or abandoned.

OpenStreetMap is not a place to map all paths that ever existed - if path is gone then it should be deleted.

(exceptions apply to objects very likely to reappear, ones still visible on aerial or otherwise worth keeping to prevent against invalid edits)

> in this area

I am not a local to this area so I am not planning to focus on this specific OSM data issue, but keeping path forever just because it existed at some point in past is not really OK.

If someone is interested in this kind of mapping then OHM exists.