Reply To: Diagnostic query: Unexpected kernel panic on macOS Sequoia 15.1 after waking (1794700870)

The panic signature AppleThunderboltNHI combined with IOPlatformPluginFamily strongly suggests a Thunderbolt/USB4 power state transition failure during wake, not an APFS indexing issue. Verify the dock’s firmware via system_profiler SPThunderboltDataType and compare against the vendor’s latest changelog for “S0ix/D3cold” fixes. As a hardware recovery step, disconnect all Thunderbolt devices, run sudo nvram boot-args="thunderbolt_allow_unsupported=0" to force strict enumeration, and test wake reliability on internal display only.