There was a time where this debate was bigger. It seems the world has shifted towards architectures and tooling that does not allow dynamic linking or makes it harder. This compromise makes it easier for the maintainers of the tools / languages, but does take away choice from the user / developer. But maybe that’s not important? What are your thoughts?
Not to disappoint you, but when I installed HL1 build from 2007, I had a lot ot libraries versions that did not exist back in 2007, but it works just excellent.