I haven’t seen any decision on this and I’m running into it again as I make progress towards completion. I’d still like to see areas filtered out (plazas like North Plaza - CityStrides).
I’ll propose another solution: allow users to ignore streets. It’d be similar to how we can mark streets with the “Manually complete” button. The difference is I wouldn’t be claiming that I completed the street, just that I’m not interested in counting it towards completion.
But if this is blocking me from 100% completion, I’ll either run around borders of these remaining plazas or just mark them as manually completed and be done with it.