Here I am again, still experimenting with SQLcl.
Now I'm just facing a curious situation: it seems that the newer 26 version introduced a bug with the host command.
It works to run a single command to the OS, but it completely hangs when invoking the host command alone to have a shell. The only way to have the prompt back is killing sqlcl with CTRL+C:

I just checked with a previous 24 version, and it behaves as expected:

Not a big thing in fact, just a possible bug I found.