Or statically compile if you don’t want dynamic libraries. Indeed. I do not understand why dynamic linking is still routinely used as part of so many software

Or statically compile if you don’t want dynamic libraries. Indeed. I do not understand why dynamic linking is still routinely used as part of so many software deployments. A lot of the arguments for using it that once made sense are now obsolete; some have been for a very long time. It's not that it's never useful, but it seems to be used almost by default in a lot of situations, even when a simple, static link would result in software that is both more efficient and more reliable.