... I'd bet real money that an EVA will be choreographed years in advanced regardless of whether it's being done in person or not.

I don't fault your logic, but I don't have a single example of successfull construction of anything in space by teleoperation. I'm just not convinced you can ever get the same feel for a problem or situation by teleoperation, and NASA already has a pool of in person talent to use. A switch to teleoperation would mean building up a completely new pool of skills and operators, and proving to skeptical people that they can do the job just as well. And I'd point to undersea construction as a strong anology to in space construction where risks are high but there's still a lot of call for a skilled person to do the job 'on site'.

I'm not saying you won't be right in ten years time, you could well be, but today I'd still trust the person in the suit to do the job better, and I'd do everything I could to make sure the risk he/she was exposed to was minimal.