Feature parity with old jquery control Declined

I know splitter is in preview, but I have an immediate need to remove an existing splitter which is a kendo ui control.  I would rather not use the syncfusion jquery control in it's place. 

I need the ability to

expand collapse via code

add/remove splitter via code.  

example. my application always has a horizontal splitter, but there are times where a user can open up a console pane similar to the browsers debug tools that adds a vertical splitter.  There is a toggle button to collapse/expand the horizontal splitter. When expanded it returns to the previous size.