@raven While I would never use “pause and resume later” (and in fact I almost never pause my watch at all), I do agree that there is a lot of value in recording non-performance fun activities, and I see how stitching multiple separate sessions together into a larger activity is appealing to a lot of people.
For starters, there is a growing tendency to share such fun non-performance activities on Strava, posting with a bunch of photos. I kind of enjoy when others share that. For example, someone can go explore a city while traveling and take a lunch break in the middle. Sharing that as a single activity on Strava is much better than spamming everyone with multiple short activities.
Personally I just keep the watch running, sometimes even when I go into a store, and then I let Strava automatically remove all non-moving parts. But I can see how pausing and resuming later would make more sense to many people.