Has there been a debate on the topic of removing the seats in the exit rows from most planes?
I think there are some valid reasons to do this:
1. I've never been in an emergency where my flight had to utilize the exit doors, but I can only imagine 100 people trying to exit through these doors and not having enough room to exit in an efficient manner.

2. I assume some people with size limitations could possibly have greater difficulty with a row of seats limiting their movement to the exit door.

Overall, my argument comes down to safety and I understand that such safety concerns come with a set of consequences. I foresee the argument on loss of revenue over these seats. Another argument could be the current airplane exit row seat configuration is ample room for a safe evacuation.

There's another side to this in that these seats will definitely be premium seats. If ever there was a need to use the exit row, this "suggested" seat removal would have the "path of least resistance". Removing the exit row seats would result in the row behind the exit row seats to become the responsible owners of opening the exit doors.

I post this topic in hopes that different points of views will challenge this topic. I definitely look forward to your insights.

Thanks!