When I am driving some times I get questions about things that I don't care at the moment, why I am using vim/sublime this way, why I named the variable like that. This causes me to lose concentration. If I am "navigating" (as the article mentions) I try to not make many comments but I feel very stressed about the other person not solving the problems the way I would.
I am very open to brainstorming meetings etc, but then just let me go back to my computer in my space to write code. Then I send a PR to someone in the team for review and we can discuss about it.
However there are scenario where I think pairing is very useful, for instance when doing risky changes to infrastructure. The driver share her screen and then it tells the other people watching every action before executing, like "I am going to switch the DNS record now to X.." and the copilot answer "go ahead", "I will wait 2 minutes"..."I am taking down this load balancer.. "