Oh dear Southern Belle, falling for the Virgin spin again? I also work for Virgin and agree that the seat is again tacky and also flawed. It's all the same blurb that they gave the first time. That seat was also 'developed' by crew and gold card passengers.
To suggest it will be better than BA First is again an insult. BA First is excellent, have you tried it? I didn't hear RB saying the new Upper Class would be serving Krug Champagne and Caviar nibbles before dinner, as do BA.
Virgin had to do something, to save the airline from the collapse that the first seat caused. Lets hope the new seat at least stops the flow away from Virgin, but let's stop this embarrasing BA bashing. BA is a fantastic airline, and it flies everywhere, that's where they win the business passenger, not in the seat.
Get out more!