Routes that I used to create in Garmin Connect (road cycling setting, custom method, i.e., selecting start, finish, and a few waypoints in between) used to be very good - it favored good (car-free etc) roads where it made sense but also sometimes went for more busy roads where there was no nice alternative.
Recently, this seems to have changed - the algorithm seems to heavily favor popular routes over anything else.
One example: there are two ways to reach a friends' place, one goes through a valley on a very good cycling path, one is also very nice but crosses a mountain. Garmin used to route via the valley (slightly longer, but in the end you get there faster because it's flat), now it exclusively routes via the mountain (shorter, but 200m of elevation).
This is happening everywhere though, not just on that specific example. For training this is great, but if I want to get from A to B using Garmin routing, this is borderline useless now because detours are favored so much.
Can you confirm that the routing changed in this regard? Are there plans to trade-off "scenic/detours" and "direct" in routing? I feel that'd be a great addition.
Cheers!
