Sleep prevented while player is paused

Windows 10 Pro version 1703. Paused VLC prevents sleep:

powercfg /requests DISPLAY: [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe

Stopping the player resolves it, but is not a real alternative to pausing, since pausing is meant to save the current position.

This behavior is unintuitive, since there is no point to preventing sleep while not actually playing a video.

The problems this causes is wasting energy, draining batteries, burning out screen backlights, etc. It's also just an annoyance that most users won't be figure out the cause of.

Related bugs on other platforms: #3724 (closed) (Linux), #16488 (closed) (Mac)