"I want my traditional high-availability cluster to scale beyond the limits imposed by the corosync messaging layer."

Ultimately, the primary advantage of remote nodes over cluster nodes is scalability. There are likely some other use cases related to geographically distributed HA clusters that remote nodes may serve a purpose in, but those use cases are not well understood at this point.

Like guest nodes, remote nodes will never become the DC, initiate fencing actions or participate in quorum voting.

That is not to say, however, that fencing of a remote node works any differently than that of a cluster node. The Pacemaker scheduler understands how to fence remote nodes. As long as a fencing device exists, the cluster is capable of ensuring remote nodes are fenced in the exact same way as cluster nodes.