dunno about flat, but the controls on the new seats are miserable, you choose modes, with no ability to move individual seat components independently. i.e. you can not just move forward if you just want your feet to reach the rests.

and narrow, with a lot of space given to a complex between-seat console for the in-flight entertainment system on which the major comedy is the flight map.

and no lumbar support. and lumpy and quite uncomfortable. i have a bad back, and did us trans-con in classic domestic first last week and felt far better afterward than i did in the new fancy seats in the ride home to narita.

for all the money spent on this, one would think that someone would have had a clue. how embarrassing.