You all may be interested in this topic in which the street vs node debate has been heavily discussed. I didn’t reread the whole thread but I know the “virtual node” has been discussed somewhere on the forums (either this thread or another).
In the end it’s all what you make of it. I have a few streets in the city I’m currently working on that are complete simply because I hit both ends while running to a different area. I plan on going back and running those streets anyway so it doesn’t bother me that my street count is temporarily inflated.