Illustrator Shape / Graphics Styles issue (bug?)

When using the 'Split into Grid' command the resulting rectangles are defined as paths not shapes so that the live corners feature is not visible in the toolbar/transform palette.
Since starting to write this I've stumbled upon the fact that while holding the Ctrl key with the object selected the live corners become visible and editable directly either via dragging the mouse or when double-clicking the mouse on the radius point where as options window appears to allow exact settings - this is great. It would be better if the toolbar/transform palette also reflected these settings to see at a glance which values have been used or even better, the resultant output of the 'Split into Grid' was defined as a rectangle in the first place.
Also, historically (CS5) I would save the rounded corner effect as a graphic style, I've noted that shapes with live corners set, do not copy those settings into the captured graphic style.
Cheers!
Rob

Learning on the fly here, I just noticed the Object > Shape menu where you can convert a shape to rectangle when then enables the live corners to be updated. Perhaps a check box could be added to the 'Split into Grid' to enable this to be done automatically?
The graphics styles issue still stands.

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