I read through this quickly, but I couldn't find any mention of pair programming not being suitable for sensitive and introverted people - especially those that suffer from anxiety and other mental illnesses that can be made worse by the stress of pair programming.
Whilst the article mentions that it "can be hard and stressful" there is still the assumption that most people are more or less the same in terms of mental resilience, that most people would be okay and that everybody should "give it a go". I don't feel that's true at all, and certainly I'm one of those people that would be made ill by an environment of constant forced pair programming _even though_ I manage to hold down a job, appear "fairly normal" from the outside and do pretty well as a mostly solo programmer.
Whilst the article mentions that it "can be hard and stressful" there is still the assumption that most people are more or less the same in terms of mental resilience, that most people would be okay and that everybody should "give it a go". I don't feel that's true at all, and certainly I'm one of those people that would be made ill by an environment of constant forced pair programming _even though_ I manage to hold down a job, appear "fairly normal" from the outside and do pretty well as a mostly solo programmer.