It's gotten better but it's very dependent on chipsets and driver support for those. I have one Samsung laptop with an Intel chipset that more or less goes standby reliably. Sometimes it still messes up and it's dead when you open it. But mostly it's fine and it's gotten more rare with recent kernel versions. The fingerprint reader is pretty much the only thing that doesn't work on that laptop and probably never will because it's a cheap Chinese thing with some proprietary firmware.
The core issue is that the firmware in most laptops is just ancient garbage and nobody seems to really care about it. Apple has full ownership over their own firmware so it's less of an issue for them (though it still has issues). But most chip manufacturers servicing the wintel laptop market treat software as an afterthought. They aren't very good at it and they just put in the minimum effort that they can get away with. So, it's all proprietary, poorly designed, decades old, etc. If it breaks they bang on it until it sort of works again (windows only).
Laptop makers then make things worse by just buying a lot of cheap components. Synaptic seems popular for touch pads, for example. My Samsung has one. It's not good. I've actually never come across anything made by them that wasn't garbage.
With Linux slowly creeping up in market share on desktops, it's something that could start changing. Most Linux users are very selective in what they buy and there are certain brands that are just so hopeless that people actively avoid them. Lenovo bought a good reputation from IBM when they acquired their laptop division. That's ages ago but they sort of nurtured that and it's probably helped a lot. It's not rocket science to just make sure things work on Linux.
My work laptop is a macbook. The hardware is just miles ahead of the competition. It's just not even close. Everything else is a major downgrade. I bought that Samsung to replace a mac because I was waiting for the M1 to come out when my old laptop died. I worked on that thing for half a year. Going back to a mac was just such major upgrade in every way possible. You forget how great they are. Software wise I'm actually fine with Linux. Everything I use is open source or available for Linux. I don't use any of the Apple software (the i* stuff). I'm there for the hardware only. If Linux support catches up, I might switch actually.
Moved to Apple Silicon in 2021 after my Dell Precision cooked itself (and my lunch!) to death in my bag on a train. No issues since.