> It's absolutely infuriating to anyone who values anything

It's not really your place to say what's infuriating to others when your pair programming experience with a _single_ (somewhat neurotic) programmer was irritating. In my experience, pair programming has been a delightful two-way share of ideas that was both refreshing and productive (but I'm not going to claim universality or such an experience).

Pair programming probably does suck when one side is extremely impatient and overbearing.