I have just searched https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath on my phone and “uiaa” does not exist in that page
To be fair to the wiki, it does take considerable time explaining that path is a crap tag, and why data consumers should beware of things tagged with it.
When I said “not in any normal sense a path” it was in the context of a suggested email to the DWG, and I went on to say that that email should also explain why the tag didn’t fit the OSM object, and in the context of the British English usage that is the foundation of OSM tagging.
I would expect any discussion about the tagging a particular way to take into account lots of things, including impressions gained from survey, not just the OSM wiki.
You seem to be saying "but I want to use path for this. Perhaps you should explain why, beyond “I have always done it like this”?
To be clear - the issue of concern here is that crap maps and apps will just show a “path” like something you could go for a Sunday stroll on. Arguing that “they should look at sac_scale” should happen with the app developers, not here.