It's interesting because there is an opposite cult (I believe some prominent plan9 and go people are adherents) that believes dynamic linking should literally not be a thing. I even recall reading some essays that introduction of a dynamic linker was some kind of tragic downfall in Unix history.

I think the truth is that both have costs and benefits. Dynamic linking is good for security patches, memory and disk usage. But it creates new opportunities for problems, for example ABI breakage becomes more significant of a problem and needs a lot of care to avoid. People distributing code, be it to end users or app stores or on servers with things like chroots, jails and containers, need to carry their dependencies anyway negating some of the benefits.