You can also see it as a security gain because you now can upgrade things independently without fear of how that may propagate to other applications. Being able

You can also see it as a security gain because you now can upgrade things independently without fear of how that may propagate to other applications. Being able to upgrade rapidly is the single best way to improve security. With DLLs people take a lot more time to upgrade because the risk is so high, meaning systems sit with older less-secure versions for longer.