Path certainly seems to have fulfilled a need for less-good "paths" in fields & forests. I would go so far as to say it should now be recommended for that purpose (but noting that there's still quite a lot of use of other tags for data users to be aware of, and this usage may persist).
However, I don't think we've got a consensus on how things should be tagged at the border between footway and cycleway. There the documentation should (for the moment) recognise that the matter is still evolving. Yes it is messy, but the problem is that the "vote" isn't the end of the process (that is merely the recording of the views of the people who are still following, if not particpating in some part of the debate). There's then a long process of documentation, usage, redocumentation, before finally you get to consensus. If you recognise it as a process, and use appropriate language, then I think we'll get there in the end. Richard
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