Last week there was a whinging customer. They'd booked a restaurant for 8 people and found themselves seated at 4 double tables spread all over the restaurant. The owner claimed they had not asked for a table for 8 people and had satisfied their request, numerically. He tried to calm them down by indicating that as they had booked 3 weeks earlier they were getting a bargain on what the walk-ins were paying for their dinner that evening. Somehow that didn't placate them and they ate elsewhere.
(now where is that tongue in cheek smiley?)
Why should you pay extra for what has been normal, and with some more sympathetic airlines still is, common sense customer service? If there was still only free seating, then fair enough, but it is not. It's not about £2 or £20 it's about a principle of not feeling you are being screwed as a customer who pays the salary of all the fat cats at the top.
Tongue out of cheek. Final word, as no doubt we shall agree to disagree.