It just seems someone doesn’t know the difference between hibernate and suspend and is finding out that one writes to the disk.

This is clickbait. Having hibernation and writing 32GB of RAM to the SSD are not “Windows 11”, but standard behavior on any OS with hibernation.

In my experience, the fragility and unreliably of M.2 and SSD has been greatly overstated.

Might explain why, for like a decade now, my computer will never stay asleep or in hibernation or whatever the hell. Always just wakes up by itself. Luckily SSDs are so fast that I just turn the thing off when I’m not using it now, but it’s still annoying.

I wonder if sleep has much of an effect if any