Hey Ray.  Except for that vestigial city-alley-turned-parking-lane change (I support that), thank you for NOT going wider with any removals (there are literally thousands of alley names already inputted in L.A. County). 👍

In the last few years, there have been several prominent OSM mappers working in L.A. (with WAY more experience at this than even I have) who have raised similar questions and cited similar thoughts about reference numbering. After friendly debate, the takeaway has always been to leave the alley names.  They're all tagged with name:signed=no (which was significant for their acceptance), they add to the usefulness of apps like CityStrides and Wandrer, and, importantly, they contribute to public knowledge (not to mention usage since the City uses these numbers too).  That last bit is why I also do deep dives to find official names of all our concrete-lined streams and other tributaries into the L.A. River.  If people see an alley or a creek with no name, they respect it and care for it less than if it was the other way around.