As for the importance of tactics... I am the first to admit their importance. However, I simply disagree with the underlying dogmatic statement that goes "90% of chess is tactics" or similar ones. While I do believe tactics are essential, I dislike tactical play (which I find mostly irritating-a matter of preference) and I think beginners are usually told way too much to do tactical training without any degree of relationship to their own play. Just purely tactical training (like solving puzzles, which we could quiver and discuss about being training, if we so wished).
Tactics are much more important in bullet and blitz than they are in classical and daily chess. I'd estimate that tactics are around 90% of bullet, 75% of blitz, 50% of rapid, 40% of classical and 30% of daily. As the time controls get longer, positional play, strategy, defense and endgame knowledge play a much bigger role in the game. My tactics are pretty weak for my level, so I win a lot more daily games than I do blitz games.
I bet @wornaki isn't even going to answer it and ignore it.
Huh? I've stated what I intended to "discuss" in this thread multiple times. I'm not about making it about myself.