bungler

? That sounds extremely unlikely/exaggerated, all the short haul aircraft used on international routes have very recent interiors and I never found any problems with the new seats.

Unless, of course, you are one of those people that are talking about some flight five and a half years ago - in the meantime the company has received a major overhaul (although the short haul business is still lacking in parts, it has to be agreed).

To counter your other points, the crew always have rest seats which you can't sit in, that is not limited to AZ; always being bussed could be for a variety of reasons including that the plane may be coming from a schengen destination and therefore can't be attatched by finger because the SVO passengers have to have gone through passport control.