Michal, as I currently have your attention, maybe you can also look at the remainder of this issue (a script to turn bibliography and toc to static text).

I don't know if it is enough, but the attached make4ht build file removes links. TeX sample is attached as well. I don't know if the removing of links is enough.

Compile as

make4ht -e build.lua -f odt sample.tex

(file #404, file #405)

Often publishers request to submit Word documents that do not have any dynamic elements (no fields, no hyperlinks, toc and bibliography as simple static text). It is possible to remove such elements in Word (Shift+Ctrl+F9) and by jumping through some more hoops [1] it is also possible in LibreOffice.

Since producing Word files from LaTeX for publishers strikes me a common use case of tex4ht (at least in my field, the Humanities, where LaTeX submissions are very rarely accepted), it would be good if tex4ht (or make4ht) provided a simple option to produce such static output.

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80786