Howdy! Thanks so much for explaining that reasoning. My changes in this case were mostly done with enabling future edits in mind. Specifically, I find it easier to update tags and geometry when clicking on some feature selects one feature, if that makes sense. However I did notice that everything in this area was following the "overlapping ways" paradigm, so in retrospect I think I should have tried to contact the original mapper (you in this case, I guess) to come to an agreement first.

Anyway, sounds like a revert is in order? Thanks for caring about data quality and communicating with your fellow mappers! :)