For desktop computers it makes sense. I find that hybrid hibernation gets the best of the two world. I can have the PC in sleep and have it turn on faster, or if the PC looses power you don't loose anything.
A thing that I do often is that I forget my desktop PC in sleep mode but still powered, and since I know that hibernation works I can simply cut power to the whole power strip to save energy without having to wake up the PC just to shut it down correctly and then remove power safely.
By the way, you can also have a swap file, but it's not as simple to configure (and still the file size is kind of fixed and that removes the point).
A thing that I do often is that I forget my desktop PC in sleep mode but still powered, and since I know that hibernation works I can simply cut power to the whole power strip to save energy without having to wake up the PC just to shut it down correctly and then remove power safely.
By the way, you can also have a swap file, but it's not as simple to configure (and still the file size is kind of fixed and that removes the point).