Hi,
its not as you say, you simplified it too much. I just want to mark as abandoned the path, where our user told that it doesn exist and I verified it on strava. Give yourself a question: why all strava users choose the other path than this one (the one i marked as abandoned)? The obvious solution is that it simply doesnt exist.
Simply: A marked path which is not visible on Strava is suspicious, together with user report, I’m 100 percent sure it is abandoned.
If you can check it in terrain, please do it. It’s always the best solution
V