No, don’t do that.  Those short connectors have been added to make bus platforms routable.  There is an ongoing effort to map sidewalks accurately, and connect them to existing paths, which gives more accurate routing than asking people to follow the roads.  We have already mapped several parts of Brussels like this and will continue.  Rome was not built in a single day, and there are only 24 hours in a day, it will just take a little time before we can continue over this area.