As a user I care about the damn thing not using up the whole battery overnight, not playing sounds and not running any fans; and I also care that when I open the lid, it’ll happily start doing those things because I now need it to do them. Whether technically it’s called a sleep state or not is irrelevant.

I made the distinction because on occasions you'll close the lid, put the macbook in your backpack and an hour later it's a whole furnace in there.

It kinda matters.