This is basically what docker does and it’s a godsend.
With the added hassle of installing Docker and learning and managing all of its details, and what you get in the end only works on Linux.
Meanwhile every OS in existence support running its executable format with zero other bookkeeping.
On Linux the only reasonable solution is an install/executable script and/or docker.
Just as long as they're signed. Unsigned apps built on one machine will fail to start (pass audit) on another.
Also, docker seems to be on the way towards non free (or already in a?) /non-foss , so will probably soon be completely out of favor with everyone. Perhaps other tools like jails,bhyve, etc will rule the space soon.
Of those users 90% are running Debian. So you insert apt install docker into your script. The remaining .4% are using red hat. So you insert yum install docker into your bash script.
Then you add a line to start your image, now put the bash script on your website, voila, single file program that works anywhere.
Once you have root just do whatever you want. replace the binary, install another version, upgrade the kernel, and then run your app.
Most users here using the software may not understand anything about software dev, so they need it to work on a laptop with an external hard drive - no cloud compute or cloud storage (to keep cost low for them) - but it can't have any long lists of commands to get something working.
One command to install and run docker seems to be a decent solution, but the program to do that needs to be accessible from any OS without gaurantee of docker being installed.