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What are the crazy historical reasons? As far as I know, running six ttys and one graphical session, in that order, has been standard.
The really crazy historical way to test for crashes is num/scroll/caps lock. That's handled by a very low-level kernel driver. If those are responsive, it's probably just your display (gpu, X, wayland, or something) that's locked up. If they're unresponsive, your kernel is locked up. (If you're lucky, it's just gotten real busy and might catch up in a minute, but I've only seen that happen once.)
I was able to make some progress in troubleshooting.
I went to the Screen Locking options and disabled "Lock after waking from sleep". Now I get to see the screen when I wake the computer back up, frozen as it was when I issued the sleep command.
All devices are disconnected - no network, no Bluetooth, no audio, all the “tray” icons are greyed out and/or showing errors, time is stopped at the moment I clicked the "Sleep" button.
Not sure if that helps at all.
after wake up, does the numlock button change its light when you press it?
No, the keyboard is unresponsive. I also tried Ctrl+Alt+F1...F7, and got absolutely nothing.
I did a BIOS update, as advised here, and the behaviour changed! Now the freeze happens BEFORE the PC goes to sleep. As in: it gets to the frozen state the moment I click the button and the screens remain on.