[johannes1234321]

Depending on distributors means that your users will only use ages old versions of your software, thus you receive support requests for stuffprobably already fixed/changed. Sending users back to distros also takes time.

And for static linking: That is kind of happening with those modern snap and flatpack and whatever systems for handling applications, but it's bad for security. I want to update my system zlib in case there is an issue instead if depending on all applications consuming compressed unteusted streams updating their package in time. And I certainly don't want each little tool bundling their own Qt.