Good questions. Hikers hike upon much more than paths, we are delighted to find a track, too. Somewhere here, it seems, there is a false assumption? Hikers “only select highway=path ways?” maybe? No, we select more than that. I don’t think tagging for something downstream in a specific way (just what a customer wants) which stretches a definition of reality to “fit” a tag is correct. I have difficulty not saying that is a highway=track or even highway=service with surface=* and width=* tags. That is a seriously engineered improved road. Path? I’ll wake you up as I pass Neptune and head out towards Pluto as I travel to wrap my head around “path.”
Listening.