The later versions of RDP is miles ahead of any other remote desktop protocol in my experience. I used to use it for gaming years ago (from Windows machine to Mac) - it really isn't that bad if latency and bandwidth is acceptable.
As others say, it is very hard sometimes to detect what is local and what isn't with RDP. Everything seems to just work, even using the Mac client.
Compare this with everything else I've used and it's a real janky JPEG compression mess.
RDP is indeed highly performant, but the experience may highly depends on the latency.
I'm working daily in a nanofabrication center and routinely RDP to workstations running Windows Server from computers with 12 years old i5 (which is supposed to be single purpose for tool billing). I wrote code with VSCode and Matlab, view GDS with KLayout, run ANSYS and COMSOL. Everything works so well even with all the 3D, despite of the ancientness of the terminal computer. However this depends on a decent LAN with a <1 ms ping delay (physical distance ~500 m)...
When working at home through VPN, the experience degraded to fluent but with seldomly noticeable latency. And when using the shitty public wifi at train station, then every keystroke take a noticeable time to echo...
As others say, it is very hard sometimes to detect what is local and what isn't with RDP. Everything seems to just work, even using the Mac client.
Compare this with everything else I've used and it's a real janky JPEG compression mess.