@dsh4 - it’s not about being “ugly”, it’s about being usable. Just like we don’t map individual trees (unless they have special significance). OSM is not meant to collect every possible detail about the world, just ones that would be usable.
This episode of Map Men is a good explanation of this philosophy in a broader context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwprznh3d-o
If every street in Tel Aviv is covered in a red line that indicates a bus line, it won’t be too usable.
There exists apps that support bus routing in many countries. Saying that adding this data to Israel specifically will enable such apps is a bit far fetched, as it’s much easier for a developer to just consume GTFS feeds than interact with the OSM API, or keep an updated copy of the entire OSM database.
Also, bus routing that is based on OSM only would not be very useful, as it won’t contain the actual schedule - which is very important when doing public transit routing.
route=bus data exists for some European cities, but I haven’t seen an app that uses it. Do you know of any such app? And if not, why do you think adding Israel specifically would cause these apps to be created?
what would be the usecase of a transit routing app that doesn’t have the actual schedule?
What would be the usecase of a bus route map so dense that it can’t be possibly used for navigation?