In theory… But serious question: Have you ever met anyone who actually WANTED to DM? Because desire is a key factor in determining how much fun a DM would have.
So, I fully understand that I’ll never have as much fun DMing as I would being a player. Like, if you don’t want to be DM, you’ll never enjoy it as much as the players. And no one ever wants to DM—at least that I’ve met (and judging from the Internet, that’s true for most people).
Think about it. A DM (when they really want to pull out all the stops and wow the table) will work upwards of 12 hours a week, sometimes more (usually on top of whatever life they have on an everyday basis) crafting encounters, and maps, and NPCs, and story hooks, ect. etc. ad nauseum… Only for players to cancel last minute or bumble-fuck around the entire session—not paying attention to anything—and then passively whine about how they don’t know where the story’s going or what they’re doing. Although they probably don’t mean it offensively, they ‘bout to catch these hands when that slutty cliche Tief opens her mouth again. (And by “catch these hands,” I mean of course “smited by the invisible god of the table”)
My party has forcefully elected me as DM (hopefully not permanently) because “[I’m] such a good writer and storyteller. We can’t do what you do.”
Which, like, thank you (that means a lot). But sometimes I’d like to take a backseat and just enjoy a session of being a murder-hobo and not having to coordinate every detail of every moving plot thread every week. 🤷♀️