I was just giving a real-world example where dynamic patching via LD_PRELOAD was quite useful, not offering it as an argument for maintainers to use dynamically

I was just giving a real-world example where dynamic patching via LD_PRELOAD was quite useful, not offering it as an argument for maintainers to use dynamically linked libraries. Of course, there are many independent arguments for using dynamically linked libraries, which is why most linux distributions use them.