I'd argue pairing is BETTER remote where you both have comfortable access to all your screens. While one person is writing production code, the other can be goo

I'd argue pairing is BETTER remote where you both have comfortable access to all your screens. While one person is writing production code, the other can be googling/writing repl style experiments/whatever and in easy communcation while they have the person writing code up on a second screen or at least a background window easily brought back to the foreground.