No, the log4j devs really seem to have thought it was a good idea to have this (1) built, and (2) enabled by default. One of them was on twitter whinging that

No, the log4j devs really seem to have thought it was a good idea to have this (1) built, and (2) enabled by default. One of them was on twitter whinging that they needed it for backcompat. I just can't.