With mark-sexp, you can press it several times to mark sexp's forward, e.g. if you have
(setq |foo '(bar) fie fum)
then after pressing C-M-SPC three times, you'll have marked foo '(bar) fie.
But after (global-set-key [remap mark-sexp] 'easy-mark), pressing C-M-SPC thrice only '(bar) is marked (and it never moves forward no matter how many times I press it).