I must have missed all these pair competitions with clean programs.
I am talking only about the non-jump elements in pairs programs. The throws, lifts, twists (add in death spirals if you want too)...those are all very commonly completed without any significant error. If you look at the performances from last year, the 3 Chinese teams alone had a combined total of 10 LP performances where they did all of those elements without error. Compare that to the number of times every female skater in the World was able to skate a clean LP with a Triple-Triple combination (or 3Axel) and all of the difficult jumps...1 skate from Yu-Na (despite not doing a 3Loop I will let her Olympic LP count), 2 from Mao, 2 from Flatt (letting the UR issue slide), 1 from that Russian girl...so that's a total of 6. From every female in the World across an entire season. In comparison to 3 pairs teams being able to do all of their high level non-singles elements cleanly 10 times during the season.