Except "being visible to the user" is a useful thing to have, as GP explained :).

Or put in a different way: the problem is the "shared" part, not the "dynamic linking" part. Instead of static linking, you can avoid the issue of library versions by just shipping your shared libraries along with your program[0] - and this way, users still retain the ability to swap out components if the need arises.

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[0] - Well, you could, if you could rely on LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set to "." by default. Windows is doing it right, IMO, by prioritizing program location over system folders when searching for DLLs to load.