On desktops this is 100% correct. On mobile it sucks to have to ship stuff statically linked (or even dynamically linked) but included in the .apk or .ipa. But

On desktops this is 100% correct. On mobile it sucks to have to ship stuff statically linked (or even dynamically linked) but included in the .apk or .ipa. But mobile is a different world, it is more like the past where every resource is constrained. You have limited storage (and storage is relatively expensive), limited memory, limited bandwidth (despite what the carriers want the consumers to believe), and the app stores impose limits too.