Yes, we sometimes unschool.
I think there is a lot of confusion about it because there are so many different interpretations of what 'unschooling' is. Then there is even more confusion about it when you add in radical unschooling and relaxed homeschooling and whatever else you can think of.
I personally do have routine and rhythm to our days. We have limits on screen time and that sort of thing. My style of homeschooling is to present lots of different options and allow my children to choose what they want to do. I'm also open to them coming up with something themselves.
I do find some unschoolers would see that as imposing my will, and other parents would see me as way too permissive. So it is constantly walking a line.
The problem I fins with some of the pure unschooling ideal (not the reality as I see it practiced among people I know) is that sometimes children don't know that they don't know. They also don't always know how to interpret their own feelings etc. So for example, my oldest will resist doing any learning if we haven't done it in a while, and he will crave the TV for the stimulation, but its like eating potato chips when you want a full meal - he doesn't realise that he isn't hungry for more potato chips (TV) he really wants a meal (learning something new).
I see it as my responsibility to fill that real need, not just to 'let him do his own thing', but also to teach him how to read himself better. But I don't have any doubt that there are some unschoolers who would see that as me not trusting the process and needed to be deschooled
