Cascading Replication - Standby Recovering Faster from Archive rather than Upstream node

We have a cascading replication setup with multiple nodes 2 of which are in a different cloud region for DR purposes. 

DRnode01 > DRnode02 

They are both standby nodes, DRnode01 only recovers from the archive and does not connect to any upstream node for streaming. DRnode02 has the same restore_command which points to that WAL archive, but it is also configured with primary_conninfo to stream from DRnode01. I'd like it to just WAL stream instead of using the archive, but it just ends up recovering slightly faster from the archive than DRnode01 can send WALs so the logs end up being spammed with 

pg_wal_replay_pause() does not work, it ends up in the same situation after resuming. Changing restore_command requires a restart and turning it off altogether is not good for DR.

I cannot get it out of this loop and this has been a recurring issue for a while. 

Is there anything I can do to force to WAL stream instead of recovering from the archive without removing the restore_command setting?