Even shops that shipped static binaries, they all still shipped containers at the end of the day to run in production.

I find a lot of the static binary hand wringing basically: did you ever solve how to ship more than 1 file to production? Did you ever need to virtualize any resource on your compute?

Then you're at a minimum using a chroot and containers.

If you aren't shipping to production, if you're really just copying files around between your laptops and you want them to run - you have glibc.