The continue-on-error was mentioned above by @wallyworld in reference to destroying a model.
The situation I’ve found is that the application is removed, but the model is still stuck in destroying. It’s like there’s an internal state out of sync. juju status on the model shows no applications are deployed, but destroy-model reports that it’s trying to remove a machine and application.
At that point, there’s no visible application for me to force the removal of, which is why I asked about forcing the model destruction as well.