It is most commonly used to get an older archived program to load a newer library without recompiling the older program, so none of those objections apply, or are serious, because a dangling symlink (when the os moves to a newer library version) just keeps the one program from loading, reproducing (in a way) the error the symlink was introduced to fix.

The user can typically fix the same exact problem in that case. Honestly, those objections read like that meme, “No, not that way!”

Yeah, that, ubuntu. Poor choice on my part.