If your whole business revolves around shipping static libraries to customers, then surely reading the man page to work out how that can be done is part of the job.

Also, having your library rely on static initialisation doesn't seem like a very sound architectural choice.

Honestly, this just sounds like whining from someone who can't be bothered to read the documentation, and can't get the coders to take him seriously. In the time it took him to write that article, he could have read up on his tools, and probably learned some social skills too.

And do you know how you sound like when you call a well known, first hit on Google/AI, set of flags as obscure?