Thanks for clarifying, yeah I've switched my settings to hibernate, its really unfortunately I did a ton of research before getting this laptop and had seen a lot people saying stuff about the laptop heating up and the fan being on all the time (which actually I haven't had those problems, it barely gets warm when I'm using it unless I'm on a zoom or something, and even then pretty normal warmth, its actually cool to the touch almost all the time I'm using it, its ONLY when its in sleep mode that it gets hot, which makes it all the more annoying, otherwise the fan kicks in at the proper time and works well), but that seemed like more of a noise issue, idk maybe we just got lemons, its too late for me to return it, unfortunately I didn't start to use it right away because I got it as a secondary laptop.
Same for me, using hibernate is not too much of an issue, its a minor inconvenience but its just like you're saying it really sucks that I have such a major safety issue on a brand new laptop. I got a Lenovo because the last windows laptop I used a decade ago was a T60, and that thing still works great (great for it being a decade old), at this point I feel like I would've just been better off upgrading that old beast.
If I can complain in a more general annoyance sense for a second: I actually have a similar issue with my phone (an iphone 11 pro, so I know this isn't relevant to this thread at all, but idk I'm just venting at this point as it seems hopeless to get a real solution), but that's another premium product that I purchased based on previous brand experience (always good, judge me if you want but until this phone apple products always worked really well for me), and it also heats up, but there's no hibernate setting I can change on my phone, and its a similar problem in the sense that on the apple forums there's no real fix other than the generic stuff people say for every problem. In this case it heats up just browsing the internet, and its just infuriating that a brand new premium device has a major flaw, especially in both cases its a heat related one, from two completely different brands. Was there just a bad batch of batteries this year? I know I'm grasping at straws lol