I would rather focus on whether paths are themself having names.

If they have then removing names is wrong (and I heard from multiple USA mappers that in USA path commonly are named after hiking route using them).

If they do not have names then adding names to them is deliberate mistagging for renderer which would be at best controversial ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Mistagging_for_the_renderer )