I suspect that an approach that is a bit more nuanced than either extreme is currently taking is required - https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Jj7 is pretty clearly still a railway=abandoned (perhaps in addition to some other tags).
Similarly there other others (I've just commented elsewhere about https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1063504224/history ) where there really is nothing left and OHM really is the best place for such data.
These arguments were recently done to death (again) at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/proposing-to-deprecate-railway-razed-and-railway-dismantled/109679 .  _Neither_ side of the argument is completely correct.
