Today (in the same fashion I used to revert from 1.6 back to v1.8B1) I uninstalled ME, Smart Connect, and Rapid Start, shut down, reset BIOS, installed BIOS v1.7, recalibrated my BIOS settings. After my thorough software reset operation, next when I put my computer into sleep mode it correctly initiated and completed the sleep modes, transitions, and data transfers as I would desire including accurate event history.
I'm excited about that (one successful moment) but I'm far from satisfied. Until I see these features behave that way as they're intended to, well indefinitely and reliably as all software should be.
I am going to actively struggle with these aforementioned bugs as well as this one What OS processes will cause intel rapid start/smart connect to wake up? as any software testing goes until I see it behave predictably to my satisfaction.
I appreciate the help looking at these bugs.