So basically remove all of my work on the riverbed surfaces?
Can’t have natural=shingle/sand and natural=water.
Problem is someone decided that natural=water + water=river was the way to go without considering the loss of details.
The people going for deprecating the riverbank tagging should have created a new way of tagging and get this accepted into carto first.
I’ve spent a lot of hours/days working on rivers with varying water levels. Would probably have been even more if this thing didn’t happen.
Loosing all of this is not a great motivator for me to continue contributing to OSM tbh. Whats the point if someone later decides to change the way tagging is done and just deletes details.