For what it's worth, I find the GDB output of std::tuple to be far more difficult to read. Obviously if you need more than 2 values then std::pair won't work, but I do consider this a point in favor of structs.
This is a very late answer but note that, because std::pair is defined with member variables, its size cannot be optimized using 空基类优化空基类优化 (first and second must occupy distinct addresses, even if one or both is an empty class). This exacerbated by whatever alignment requirements second_type has, so in the worst case the resulting std::pair will be basically twice the size it needs to be.