All I know is, my knees bang the seat in front on Virgin and I feel like I'm sitting against a vertical wall (with seat reclined), on Q I can stretch my feet out without knee contact with the seat in front. That's just my personal experience.
When I said crew I meant he was travelling on holidays, I got talking while I was waiting for the loo as I commented he was all alone up there! Not operating crew of course!! Although they did sit in the 1st row while having their break, nothing wrong with that when you have a line of pax standing in your galley waiting for the dunny!
