To expect others to give up part of the product they have purchased in order to improve yours, is, and let's be honest, selfish.
Nearly all of you continue to discuss this as a ME (wanting to recline) v YOU (not wanting me to recline) debate. The ME brigade call the YOU brigade selfish and vv. Then we get the easy copouts: "catch the bus" & "don't buy the product" chucked in. The message I'm trying to promote is that YES if an airline provides a seat that reclines you should be entitled to recline it to its maximum, but equally NO this feature should not infringe on basic passenger comfort. I think that's a pretty fair and simple compromise.
You're all too busy defending your "right to recline" v "knees in the back" corners to see that the real culprit in all this is quite simply the airline! So stop getting at one another and focus on complaining for both sides of this issue directly to the airlines.