this is a big If.
Firstly, we, often, don't see Remco and Pogacar sprinting against each other because Pogacar normally drops Remco.
This year, they sprinted 3 or 4 times (on flat roads) and Pogacar won every time (Dauphiné, Tour 2x, AGR). Only AGR was somewhat a close contest and that's probably because Pogacar was spent. However, Remco also was cooked in the stage 4 in the Tour.
Lastly, I don't mind Remco being delusional.
@peterfin said something that made me think and I totally agree with him. It's good Remco doesn't conform for 2nd and races to win. It's important for us (cycling fans) riders don't race for 2nd because Pogacar is out of reach. It's important we still have Remco, MVP and Vingegaard to give Pogacar some headaches.
But some of his fans saying he is on par with Pogacar in classics and saying he gains more time on flat roads than Pogacar gains uphill. Sorry, this is completely far from reality, specially when we have million examples of Remco losing 10" or more/km uphill. And not just in long climbs (almost every mountain stage they raced together) but also hills (FW, TdF stages 4 and 10, WC, Redoute. I could give more examples but just chose examples from this year). AGR is a exception, not the norm.