Monolithic builds are great if you have no control over the deployed environment (IE desktop apps sans OS supplied libs). They’re worse if you do control the environment and how the upgrade paths get followed
Doesn't it seem that more and more people are just given access to some managed environment they have little control over anyway?
I feel like sometimes the dependency on dynamically linked stuff is akin to "well transistor radios are great if you don't care about soldering on fresh vacuum tubes like a real radio person would."