you're very sensitive to the costs of static linking but i don't think you see the benefit the benefit is that a statically linked binary will behave the same

you're very sensitive to the costs of static linking but i don't think you see the benefit the benefit is that a statically linked binary will behave the same on all systems and doesn't need any specific runtime support above or beyond the bare minimum this is important if you want a coherent deployment model at scale -- it cannot be the case that the same artifact X works fine on one subset of hosts, but not on another subset of hosts, because their openssl libraries are different or whatever static linking is not stupid, it doesn't mean that hosts can only have like 10 processes on them, it doesn't imply that the computing needs it serves are simple, quite the opposite future models of computing are shrinking stuff like the OS to zero, the thing that matters is the application, security (in the DLL sense you mean here) is not a property of a host, it's a property of an application, it seems pretty clear to me that static linking is where we're headed, see e.g. containers