I look at seatguru all the time. But I bring this up because this time my experience was different than the info on seatguru. I had row 15 on one flight, most likely either row 11 or 14 on the other flight... both without recline button. Seatguru says row 15 has limited recline, and the row in front of it (either 11 or 14) is a normal seat. And as I said before, I didn't see anyone else reclining seats as far as I could see on the rows in front of me.

Anyways, if you guys don't feel that this is a prevalent issue or if you think that seatguru is generally reliable for AS, then I will just consider this to be a one-off type situation. To be safer, I think I'll avoid any seat in the section in front of the middle exit rows.