Each glibc/ALSA soname bump can spell death to entire generation of binary software.
In theory, you can link libX11, openssl and other important libraries statically, but many developers don't do it, because of weird concerns about "security", "compatibility" etc.
Compare it to Windows, where libraries like kernel32, user32 and gdi32 remained stable for decades and statically linking to them is unnecessary by design.
libc.so.6 libasound.so.2 libfreetype.so.6 libX11.so.6
Each glibc/ALSA soname bump can spell death to entire generation of binary software.
In theory, you can link libX11, openssl and other important libraries statically, but many developers don't do it, because of weird concerns about "security", "compatibility" etc.
Compare it to Windows, where libraries like kernel32, user32 and gdi32 remained stable for decades and statically linking to them is unnecessary by design.