Just a bigger update, should be fine. AFAIK they did not do any major overhaul from a regular user's perspective, but there are some pretty big changes under the hood. If you use a distro with regular releases, this will probably be included in the next one.
More control? If you're speaking from the app developer's perspective, dynamic linking very much gives you less control of what is actually executed in the end.
Except with dynamic linking there is essentially an infinite amount of integration testing to do. Libraries change behaviour even when they shouldn't and cause bugs all the time, so testing everything packaged together once is overall much less work.
Thing is there will always be these sorts of features that are initially only supported on Windows as long as Linux is not a priority platform. So there will always be excuses to not switch :(
Just a bigger update, should be fine. AFAIK they did not do any major overhaul from a regular user's perspective, but there are some pretty big changes under the hood. If you use a distro with regular releases, this will probably be included in the next one.