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If you could add a media widget for this it would be good for site editors. After all this is Drupal CMS.
I think the issue ihere s that media type is attached to media bundle. media_entity_remote_image does this but the problem is it is somewhat inflexible because you have to use media bundle name for this. media_entity_remote_image assumes that this bundle name 'remote_image' is available . However, if you already have remote_image media bundle defined it makes it difficult to use.
This pattern is used in core as we see certain media bundles are defined there.
Furthermore, media_entity_remote_image does not use a remote stream wrapper, unlike remote_stream_wrapper module that also does similar. I understand that one difference is remote_stream_wrapper does give you the option to download the remote image and use it as an image style. Also it makes no assumptions about the name of the media bundle. That, said, unlike media_entity_remote_image it lacks the ability to add via media entity reference field or ckeditor 5 media widget.
One problem with remote_stream_wrapper is it uses the same schema as an image, and comes with the limitations of said module. e.g. I believe remote image urls are limited to 256 chars or something. url strings can and are much longer. 2,048 would probably be a better default here as this is the ie limit.
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/812925/what-is-the-maximum-possible-...