Sure. We agree. Cat and mouse. Can you help me understand what value you're adding to the discussion though? Low hanging fruit arguments based on semantics might be best suited elsewhere
Which is unambiguously not the case, they merely slow it down by a small margin.
When you are using shared libaries, it is fairly trivial to hook into the library calls and replace them with whatever you want. When you are using static libraries, the linker and optimizer could for example inline the machine code directly in the application code. What tools do you have to do similar tricks with statically compiled binaries?
That pointless remark misses the whole point. Even though ideally an attack vector would be eliminated, it's already good enough if it becomes unexploitable by the vast majority of potential attackers. That's why there is a whole field called "app hardening" as in a sliding scale instead of "perfect app protection".