It's a personal judgement, there can't really be a consensus on something like this. I never recline because I believe it's intrusive to the person behind me (and doesn't help me sleep anyway), and almost always get EMS since even if the person in front reclines, it means I can still open the laptop completely and get work done. But, other people can sleep, and other people do recline, so that's up to them. They bumped a guy up to Mint the other day on a LAS-BOS flight I was on b/c his seat was broken and didn't recline, so the airline seems to put some value on it themselves.