In my opinion, yes. To me it feels like highway=path on its own is nearly on the same level as highway=road in terms of what data consumers can glean from it. i.e. very little.
Here is an overpass query attempting to identify instances of highway=path without any more specific descriptive tags. I’ve not been able to run it worldwide without the request timing out, but in every area I’ve run it, there are many results. They represent all sorts of different path types as well as things that aren’t paths at all. Don’t trust this tag.