It is of no use. There will always be people sticking to old, poor schemes, just as there’s still people in this world measuring distances in feets and inches and weights in pounds and stones. I’ve gotten tired of trying to come up with reasonable arguments for the harmonisation of tagging; unless it’s a niche topic, whoever shouts the loudest always wins, no matter the arguments. OSM tagging is inherently anarchist and it should stay that way. I’ve learned to do my own thing and leave the procedures for what they are, as they merely slow down innovation and promote older schemes to remain in use.
It seems like a leap in logic to conclude that the deprecation will be successful.
For one, getting a proposal approved requires 75% approval, not just 50%. So even direct inversion would only yield 57% approval. And the better comparison would be to try and make contact:phone the preferred way, but again, success is in no way guaranteed.
The fact is that proposals formalise what mappers are already doing. Right now, we have two standards for how to tag phone numbers; unless that changes, nothing will get approved, one way or the other.
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and some of this threads are listed at Key:phone - OpenStreetMap Wiki wiki page