The thing I hate about modern is the player view is rubbish. You can no longer see what your time AND distance is to get splits outside of recorded laps. The best you can do is get one, try to hold your finger over the screen as close to the point as you can and then toggle to the other and try to match the cursor progress to where your finger is on the screen.
I can only assume the people who write Garmin Connect do not run or cycle so have no experience of what athletes actually find useful.