No. This is still typical of your condescending nature. Your post is again riddled with put-downs... I don't even think you are capable of discussing a topic without resorting to this. Let's see how the shoe fits the other way around:

I am as much a solo entertainer as anyone on this forum, and I choose to use music... choose being a very important word. It's not a crutch or a limitation or a lack of priorities. My "priority", as you put it, isn't to memorize "Proud Mary" much less to play in places where it would be needed. My priority is to play great and often complex music the BEST and most accurate way. If I did play the same stuff that many common bar acts do then I certainly wouldn't need to read music either. When I sit-in with common bar bands it's totally without music and usually without rehearsal, because we're going to play the SOS that bar bands have played for decades and we know it. But when I play solo I am not playing easy bar music and I'm making a conscience decision to use the best tool available - written music.

Any professional speaker would know how to use their notes or prepared text and still make eye contact with the audience. It's a sign of their professionalism. Reading music is no different but it may require skills that less capable musicians might not have.