That's not the same thing. You can call a shell command from any language. The log4j problem was that you could load arbitrary classes from the internet into the memory of the current process, which is a much more severe problem.
Sure, in a general purpose language, like Java, or Rust, or C++ you can indeed do "basically anything you want" that's why it's called general purpose, your purpose might be to run arbitrary code you found on the Internet, so, that's a thing you can do. If you can't it's not general purpose.
In a number of applications this means you do not actually want a general purpose language which is why WUFFS makes sense.
But, even when you don't have that constraint it's reasonable to ask: How easy was it to make a thing you didn't intend, by accident ?
