"What's the point of dynamic linking if we then end up shipping half an OS with an application just to get around dependency hell? Might as well ship a pre-link

"What's the point of dynamic linking if we then end up shipping half an OS with an application just to get around dependency hell? Might as well ship a pre-linked binary that just does system calls." I'm curious - are there any Linux distributions that contain nothing but fully static, self-contained binary executables ? As in, ships with no libraries ?