There are lots of very good reasons why running small root partitions on Linux desktops is a very bad idea.

The smart money is on a single large partition for home and root and everything else. This way you get 100% disk availability with zero extra effort and you get maximum performance. No need to shuffle disk space around with resizing partitions or thing volumes or anything like that.

Unless you have some sort of special use case were root partition can't be shared with root then on most desktop setups having a single large partition is the most straightforward way to do things.

Hibernation isn't really something really useful anymore. If people really really want it then I don't see why they shouldn't get it... but I really don't see the point.