First of all, let's just hope Adobe fixes this issue in the next version. My workaround:
1. Turn on Snap to Grid and the Grid and using Guides create your own grid. Tedious work, but handles actually still snap to the intersection of Guides.
2. In the Preference panel, choose your Guides color to match the Grid color. This way you won't notice the difference.
3. Turn off the Grid but leave Snap to Grid on for easy anchor placement.
4. Name the layer you did this on 'Grid' or something. Do not lock this layer, otherwise this improvised 'handle snapping feature' won't work.
5. Create a new layer on top of your 'Grid' layer. This new layer will be the first layer to work on.
6. Save this file as a template to do your linework on.
Keep in mind that the 'Grid' layer isn't locked, so you could accidentally drag a Guide out of place...
Hope this helps!