Re your comment above "... let's raise it on the tagging list or the relevant proposal thread to get broader community input", for the avoidance of doubt in the comment that you replied to I already said "... something that I mentioned in the forum".

For completeness, that post is: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/aligning-osm-hiking-sections-with-wikivoyage/129850/44 .

