100 percent agree. Humans love giving credit to individuals for the achievements of a community. It's not that individual leaders aren't important, it's that we give them the lion's share of the credit.
My org is full of people who were promoted because they can talk clearly and authoritatively about the project they botched the implementation of. But then they spent 10 people's time "influencing the team" to fix. But hey, they're loud, sure of themselves, and willing to break things so they must be good