Hi! Looks like we're both working on cleaning up the Midland/Odessa zoning imports. I figured I'd message to make sure we're on the same page. I would agree the neighborhood POIs that are out here seem pretty excessive. Also agree there are a ton of really odd relations that need to go. Although, my practice has been to leave the point markers for neighborhoods as is. Based on the wiki guidance for place=neighbourhood it's generally preferred that way instead of adding the name to residential areas. 
The reasoning being that a neighborhood can be made up of many different landuses, and usually has loosely-defined borders. I've got no issue with culling down some of the neighborhood marker points if you've got a good source on the local neighborhoods, but would suggest not replacing them with named residential areas, or even named multipoly relations. Let me know what you think. Mainly looking at these pages:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dresidential#Named_residential_areas
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place=neighbourhood?uselang=en#Node_or_area?