CX mucked up indeed with 11D and A, but they're still not as bad as 20D on the 77G IMO, which is the worst long-haul J seat fleetwide. Sometimes you actually have one or two passengers standing next to or even crowding the space of the 20D pax on 77G as they wait for the toilet. It's a total disgrace of a J seat. (I don't want to let CX off the hook on the 35G either though. You just can't stick someone paying top dollar in the front seat like that).

I have a bunch of flights on 35G now but none of them long-haul. I will say "at least" there is that curtain there, which is probably why the people designing the seats - none of whom fly probably 10pct of what some of us do - convinced themselves it was okay. I will add, this isn't just unique to CX. QR has a very similar problem for at least one, possibly both their front two J seats on the 35G.

My "at least" is in quotes, because I saw some other posters saying light from the toilet was another real problem in 11A and D. And I can totally see how that would happen when it's overnight flight. Bummer.

The catch with Qatar is that, even though it's nice, it's not priced premium. At least in my world (mainly HK based traveler) Cathay is way more expensive and by and large Qatar cheap as heck. So if you pay 2-3k USD for a ticket okay you can live with Qatars crappy front seats. It is basically a cheapo business class airline anyway, albeit with a very lovely product. But if I pay 3k for it who cares. If I pay 10k for CX's A350 to SFO later this year and sit in 11A, that's not okay.