No, it is actually quite cheap.

Usually software licenses for commercial development tools have a few more zeros, or not even that, forcing one to schedule a meeting with their sales people.

Before the FOSS movement, startups somehow managed to pay for their software.

I would have agreed prior to the re-licensing to include LGPL, but startups can still jump in and ship a dynamically linked executable. If you truly need/want static linking tho, then you are right the cost is prohibitive.

It should be peanuts if you have any revenue at all.