Surely, it depends on the nature of the emergency. As I understand it, in this Qantas example, the pilots did not need to fly the plane with real-time responses, just to make good decisions.
Let's not completely discount remote pilots, while recognising they are not a universal panacea.
A partial mitigation of these issues could be high bandwidth / low latency networks just in take-off / landing corridors?
They may still need help at landing, or by then it could be relatively normal.
But if you can’t provide that level of help everywhere (including over oceans) the design of the system is choosing to lose planes in a trade off for needing fewer human pilots.
Let's do completely discount remote pilots, please.