> Let’s put aside the question why someone would decide to implement such a ridiculous feature — it was implemented, everyone is unhappy, and Apple seems to have more important tasks to do than to fix it back.
The feature is there to trick people into thinking they have powered off the machine. People hit the power button and think the machine is shut down so they are happy. This way they get all the benefits of just sleeping the machine such as fast startup times, but there is no need to educate the user that shutting down every day is unnecessary.
Fast start up times, except for the issue where Mavericks takes ages to reconnect to WiFi from sleep - it's quicker to turn Wifi off and then on, than wait for Mavericks to wake the network adapter and reconnect
The feature is there to trick people into thinking they have powered off the machine. People hit the power button and think the machine is shut down so they are happy. This way they get all the benefits of just sleeping the machine such as fast startup times, but there is no need to educate the user that shutting down every day is unnecessary.