> I now have something to point people to when they ask "what is wrong with pinning?" or "what is wrong with static linking?" or "why can't you just use pip?" Michał has had to deal with some pretty crazy stuff the last couple of months ... scratch that, years.

Literally the only argument in this article against static linking is "it will take an extra couple hours for the distribution to recompile all affected packages and then require the user to download a larger update, meaning time to fix for a security issue will be negligibly longer"... since you seem to believe this article represents the strongest statement of your argument, this has actually moved me further away from where you want me to be ;P. (FWIW, the best argument I could make for dynamic linking involves memory efficiency for shared pages, the disk cache, and maybe the i-cache, not security.)