Within the week that they had them, two people in the department had broken their screens/hinges from accidents walking in and out of meetings with the lids open because there was no way provided in the software to disable suspend on lid closed which was killing people's SSH sessions. Within the month someone in my office also managed to do the same, and most of us weren't even using macs.

(I understand that this was eventually workaroundable with some power users tools; and I imagine mosh makes the suspends a little less of an issue now).

I'm sad that the popular linux desktops later decided to emulate the bad software culture that brought anti-features like that mandatory suspend.

So I expect that mic off on hinge close will have similar results. Though, ... at least this seems a lot more legitimate to me than a refusal to not suspend.