> The solution to…a problem created directly by a specific approach is to…do even more work ourselves to try and untangle ourselves?

The solution is to be more professional. DLL hell comes from libraries that break compatibility: serious libraries should not break compatibility, or at least not often. Then when they do and you happen to have the issue, it's totally fair to go patch the library you depend on that depends on the breaking lib. Even in proprietary software.

The modern way is to use ZeroVer [1] and language package managers that pull hundreds of dependencies in the blink of an eye. Then asking that people compile everything themselves or use the one system deemed worthy of support (usually Windows and the very latest Ubuntu). And of course not caring about security one bit.

[1]: https://0ver.org/