Comment by ameliaquining

The big advantage of doing it this way is that, for users, it Just Works. They never get incomprehensible error messages telling them that they've got an incompatible version of libwhatever.dll when they try to load your app. I remember well the bad old days of Java desktop apps in the early 2000s, where this problem was omnipresent. Moving away from that was a major boon to users, and I don't ever want to go back.