As others have already noted, you were in the worst plane and the worst row for domestic F. I was in 1D on an SFO-IAD red-eye once and while I was very happy to have the u/g, I was desperately missing the legroom of the non-bulkhead seats. There's a reason that you & I landed row 1: we both cleared upgrades at the last minute and *no one* picks those seats ahead of time so they're always the last to go.

I think the only F seats that were worse than the 767 2-class were the 737 F seats (which fortunately are no longer in service). As for the rest of the fleet, I think most people (myself included) really like the Airbus F seats for comfort on the two-class planes (wide-bodies included) and of course if you can snag a Y=>C upgrade on one of the three class wide-bodies you're in good shape. Bulkhead F seats are not good on *any* of the planes (save for the international C sleepers which don't really count).

So in conclusion, I think that you definitely experienced the *worst* that domestic F has to offer (excluding Regional jets of course). Was it worth the 15K?...that's what I spent on my red-eye mentioned above and even with the reduced legroom I still was more than happy to fork it over to stay out of Y on a 4+ hour flight. @:-)