That approach wouldn't work if your infrastructure is spread between multiple Terraform workspaces. (as is often done).
Edit: and actually, without a state there is no concept of a remote state. All codebases talk to the same "service" so circling a bunch of infrastructure and saving it to a specific git project would be easier than connecting to a bunch of remote states and reading specific resource days from them. Even if you're code repo doesn't declare a resource, the omniscient IAC service "knows all"