I asked Scott about this privately. He said the following:

<Keybuk> it's nobody's fault
<Keybuk> that's just the way UNIX works (tm)
<Keybuk> output from initscripts goes to whatever /dev/console is at the point 
the runlevel is changed
<Keybuk> if you shutdown from gdm, /dev/console will be tty7

I went on to ask him:

<kiko> Keybuk, wow, that's interesting. could we artificially switch
back from gdm to /dev/tty1 (where we boot up) when we start the shut
down process?

To which he replied:

<Keybuk> kiko: what would be the purpose?
<Keybuk> does it particularly matter which is the active VT when shutting down?
--- danilo is now known as danilo-out
<Keybuk> (not wishing to trivialise your concerns here, but it'd be a very 
difficult and invasive change to force the active VT to be tty1 at the point of 
runlevel change; would appear "ugly" for usplash users (they'd get a glimpse of 
a getty). etc. -- I'd like to know what problem the "unusual" VT is causing 
before I consider it.  at the moment it's purely an oddity that the VT during 
shutdown from gdm is 7, not 1)

And then added:

<Keybuk> we don't actually have shutdown messages at all in edgy or feisty 
anyway
<Keybuk> so it's probably rejected for that alone :p

Me, not being one to leave a bug unclosed, promptly did so. Please
reopen if you feel you have not been served justly!

** Changed in: Ubuntu
       Status: Needs Info => Rejected

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When using powerbutton to shutdown, output goes to wrong tty
https://launchpad.net/bugs/18637

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