Previously, when DevTools was restarting the application it would
use reflection to run all of the JVM's shutdown hooks. This was done
to close any SpringApplications' application contexts. Unfortunately,
it had the unwanted side-effect of running other shutdown hooks as
well.
The other shutdown hooks were often written with the, entirely
reasonable, expectation that they would only be called when the JVM
was shutting down. Calling them at another time could leave the
hook's library in an unexpected state. One such example is Log4J2
which was worked around in
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