Comment by Cthulhu_

See, that's a forced shutdown, a last resort measure; it's using a sledgehammer to tap in a nail. You shouldn't do that as a habit, even if this particular optimization issue wasn't a thing.

I mean I grew up diligently turning off my PC by parking the disk and using the various operating system level shutdown procedures. Nowadays I smack the off button, but that still just triggers the OS shutdown procedure. I don't turn my Mac off as a rule, its sleep mode actually works. ish.