Not everything that is "forced" is an unclean shutdown.
Certain versions of the OS were too aggressive in what they called an unclean shutdown and the resulting parity check, and this may be what you were used to seeing.
An unclean shutdown is where the system cannot unmount the drives, and has to force them to unmount.
So long as the drives can be unmounted correctly, the shutdown is "clean" regardless if a process(es) had to be forcibly terminated.