This seems like the same issue I ran into years ago, with older versions of NR and macOS and on Intel hardware. Nick and I discussed it briefly, without coming to any conclusions, except that it is probably a real thing. Now that I can shut down and restart my system much more quickly than before, I will try some experiments when I have time.
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