Even the much-lauded excellence in UX doesn't really hold up any more.
But at least you can close the lid on a Macbook, put it in your bag and be secure in the knowledge it won't decide to switch on and probably cause permanent heat damage to itself. (looking at you windows...)
Macs have the same issue, but you can turn off the feature that causes it.
In my experience you can reliably stop windows from waking in unwanted ways. I usually disable everything except input devices (keyboard, mouse).
I guess it's possible that all of them were defaulting to S3 sleep though, I never checked.
It's the option to allow software updates while your machine is asleep.
When I saw it the first time, it was unclear to me that I can even click on it, since it doesn’t look much like a button. They shouldn’t hide such important settings in a tiny icon or at least should have made it much more apparent that it is clickable.
Couldn’t find any settings related to the closed lid though.
An interesting thing to note is that even with software that states support for an older version of the OS, it usually is more buggy, so there is a tendency for software to degrade over time as it gets updated.