Is the DM the most important person at the table

[Hussar]

Because I think you're smart enough to arrive at the same conclusion I did. So since you posted it like it was proof of something...I figured I'd use a question to highlight that fact (as opposed to spelling it out since I felt that was unnecessary and might offend you). That said...you posted it like it was some kind of proof and if you knew that it wasn't why did you post it?

I'm pretty sure we're just talking past each other now.

I posited that people's personal experiences strongly color their opinion. Those whose experience tends towards single DM groups tend to express the idea that the DM is most important more strongly than those whose experience tends towards groups with multiple DM's.

Note, not proof of anything. Just a noticed tendency. I try to be pretty careful about only talking about my own group and I try very hard not to extrapolate my experience onto others.