I agree! Time is emergent. It is only comparing one thing moving relative to another thing. Without anything moving relative to each other, time can't exist:
Yea, i think time is kind of used to define two different things and that seems to make these discussions confusing. I think if you are close to the speed of light, your atoms are moving slower than those of the stationary person and so your local clock time seems to stay constant while the stationary persons clock
time seems to speed up in relation. But it's all a matter of perception of clock time passing and now is the same everywhere.