Sorry, but Steinberg is free to charge whatever they want for any feature. The fact that the paid version is called pro means absolutely nothing, as if padshop pro is for professionals only.
Of course it’s an arbitrary difference, Steinberg gives you an incentive to buy the paid version, why would they develop the whole thing and give it away for free ‘because it would be useful for most people with an occasional remote requirement’. That makes less sense to me than calling the paid version pro and giving it some useful additional features like local network support.