There are two mindsets in coding, this code needs to work right now and this code needs to work in 20 years. Linking code is very likely to break in the second time frame. Public API's are generally unstable, services goes away, and people break things. But, if all you need is a toy demo then feel free.
As for your second point, I think you're overly focused on the wrong area. Both linked and static code demonstrably have many problems over that time period – if you recompile, you have to maintain an entire toolchain and every dependency over a long period; if you don't, you're almost certainly going to need to deal with changing system APIs, hardware, etc. — linking doesn't do a thing to make a 20-year old Mac app harder to run. In both cases, emulation starts to look quite appealing – IBM has, what, half a century with that approach? – and once you're doing that the linker is a minor bit of historical truvia.
