Is There a Better Alternative to VNC on the iPad Pro?

This is like the universal control dream that I had in mind, right? I have this iPad as a modular computer, which with a single cable can become a desktop war station. If you're running a Mac mini headless and you try to enable sidecar on the iPad, but the iPad is physically plugged into a display, it doesn't want to do it for me. That's why I'm using screens. But in terms of performance and design, it really is the best I've found so far. This is the beauty of it. And unless I majorly screwed up somewhere and I didn't actually record this episode, which shouldn't be the case because I recorded myself multiple times