Technically, you're right, it's a dynamic loader. Technically, it's pure dynamic loading.

If we look at the issue at its core, we're still a statically linked program in a hostile environment, forced to dynamically load device drivers from the system.

It's similar to Golang; on MacOS, it has to use libSystem, even though otherwise, these are the statically linked Go binaries we're used to and love.

Let me add a little more detail: if I use vdso with gettimeofday in a statically linked program on Linux, am I still a statically linked program, or not? :)