OK, now that I've given it a couple of weeks, I'll say this: The *classic* SoD is gone, at least for me, but has been replaced now by new and different (although mercifully, less frequent) failures. I've had numerous failures to sleep or wake that are
different , but still require YAPORRAC (Yet Another Power-Off/Reboot/Relaunch Apps Cycle).
In most of these cases, the difference is that when I try to wake the SP4, there is no response at all (as opposed to the classic SoD, where it at least lights up the keyboard on a wake attempt...) Like the original SoD, short sleeps seem OK, but longer
ones are much more likely to fail. At least twice this week, my SP4 has failed to wake in my home office dock in the morning, after putting it to sleep with the sleep button on my keyboard. Unexplained hard hangs at the Windows Hello/Password/PIN screen
are also alarmingly common, requiring YAPORRAC.
There is also a very serious problem with Bluetooth and USB hardware sleeping, or rather, failure to sleep with USB and BT things connected. This failure mode is new and curious: after around 15-20 minutes (I haven't timed it, but will), the system attempts
to go to sleep, but apparently, because there are active BT and USB devices, it fails to do so. As a result, the system repeatedly tries to turn off each of these devices, fails, and turns them on again. This winds up happening several times a second, preventing
the computer from ever entering sleep and resulting in really annoying behaviors like 1) flashing the lights on my Wacom Bamboo tablet (USB) on and off several times a secons, and 2) FAR more annoyingly, playing the "Bluetooth device connected" and "Bluetooth
device disconnected" sounds just as often through my Harman/Kardon Onyx BT speaker. (The latter, BT bug has been around a long time (two years, at least), but it used to trigger the sounds (this is WIndows, NOT the speaker) just every minute or so (which
was plenty annoying enough) - now it's a constant, loud, BEEPBOOP-BOOPBEEP--BEEPBOOP-BOOPBEEP..., apparently as fast as the system can make and destroy BT connections to the speaker.) This can at least be stopped by any input (keyboard or mouse), but as soon
as it tries to sleep again.
Lastly, as I mentioned before, what half-broken fixes we do have seem to have come at the expense of battery life: I've tried several times now, and 3-4 hours seems to be the best I can expect now, less than half of what we were told we should get in battery
life on an SP4. (The SP4 is supposed to run longer than the SP3, even though it has a much smaller battery - this was supposed to be the benefit of Skylake's new SP0 power state, which is in reality, a miserable, stuttering, cluster-foxtrot.) I really like
Windows 10, but I'd move to ARM in a heartbeat, given how effectively Intel has created the worst experience ever for SP4 owners.
So, as I wrote before, SP4 power management under Win10v1607 is better, but nowhere close to fixed - Microsoft still has lots more work to do, and nearly a year on, our PCs still aren't fully capable of being used the way they were advertised.