"you cannot ban the public on the grounds that the hill is being damaged"
The "consensus" here is not to "ban the public" but to better explain the damage problem to them and appeal to their better nature. If they are going to say "well some achaeos and the occasional film crew and official Druid goes up therefore I'm going to as well" I'd suspect they are looking for cover to do what they intended to anyway.
Personally, I would be against renovating and throwing open the main path as that would result in 500x more people going up and a commensurate increase in erosion.
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