Can we not finish this useless discussion? The amenity=bench tag was created just for that purpose, benches. Some time later someone created the key seats to indicate how many people can sit on a bench, adding explicitly that the key capacity should not be used in that case. The addition that key seats should be used only for benches that have separate seats by an author who obviously had not looked at the actual usage of the two tags. (this has been reverted in the wiki) The proposal to replace seats with capacity, keeping exactly the same meaning does not make any sense to me.
A different argument is if we need a separate tag for benches with separated single-person seats (I guess we are talking about waiting chairs or multiseat chairs). This could amenity=chair (used 800 times only) with a new default of seats=1, and an optional seats=x BTW. It is not clear if seats is a noun or a verb.
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