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Your original question is sort of like when I ask the dentist "What's more important, brushing or flossing?" Dentists hate that question because both actions work together as a system. What's funny is I typically get different answers. They really hate the question and some dentists refuse to answer it entirely, but when pressed some dentists will tell me flossing is more important and others tell me brushing. Obviously, neither is sufficient on its own. Same with suspension. All the elements do different things and all the elements work together to create the end result. And you didn't even mention...

In short, no - shock & fork tuning can't make up for kinematics, not even close. They are all doing very different things but the shock tune does highly depend on the frame kinematic so if those don't work well you will be very limited in how much performance you can achieve. Things like anti-squat are a measure of the vehicles response to acceleration - so an "ideal" AS would mean the bike doesn't move under acceleration so you wouldn't need to do anything else to combat it. If you were trying to add damping instead it would compromise other...