@Steven-Hambleton said:
Instead of pausing an activity, allow someone to go to their exercise log, then choose to extend an existing saved session.
As soon as activity is saved it gets pushed to the cloud and other platforms such as Strava or Training Peaks. So this approach won’t work or it would become very complicated to manage.
Personally, when I owned Garmin have have never used “Stop and Resume Later” feature. Heck, I don’t even pause my watch except in rare case. On Suunto I prefer to have raw data and on Strava I let Strava automatically remove stopped time (unless it is a race). And if a stop is extended, for example for lunch, I simply end activity and then start another. In a multi-day case, I definitely use separate activities for each day. I see an activity as a single effort as opposed to a single GPX track.