Comment by AgentME

Shellshock was in 2014 and Log4Shell was 2021. It's far more likely that you're going to get pwned by using a too-recent unreviewed malicious package than to be unknowingly missing a security update that keeps you vulnerable to easy RCEs. And if such a big RCE vuln happens again, you're likely to hear about it and you can whitelist the update.