Sure. I also think that the current values scale very poorly for large countries like US, but how does it justify to do such dramatic change that will make the trails disappear from some maps? I missed discussion about this.

What is the idea for network values for the rest of the hiking trails countrywide? Are those values going to fix the hierarchy issue? Does that mean that global hiking map project will have to hardcode network values in order to infer hierarchy? 
I fear that the change will be done on the scenic trails, but nothing will be done for the rest and we end up with some nonfunctional cat-dog hybrid.