It would be great if the main discussion could take place on an official OSM channel (like here on the forums), and then you report the results to Discord, instead of the other way around.
Yes! It seems folks want to undo years of OSM convention. While we should be open to change, I don’t think it adds value in this case.
Since you quoted part of my response, I want to be clear, my decision to not delete railways is not a matter of being afraid of inciting controversy, but rather out of respect for other mappers and the realization that there are probably a lot of other people that know a whole lot more about railways than I do. I understand that other mappers may have different motivations.