I like the current layout in that I don't have to stick my lower legs and feet in a "box". Sleeping is so much easier with freedom of leg movement.
I don't want to sit with my back to the window
Direct aisle access is the real issue to be resolved, and adding a stagger to achieve direct aisle access would certainly improve the "staring at strangers" issue as well
Storage just needs a clever solution then, which might work on the 350XWB but not be achievable on retrofitting certain older frames.....
Whatever the outcome I HOPE they keep something that is "radically different" from the others who are in the main largely similar in concept.
Despite its age it is not a bad product and it doesn't become bad because there are more and more better products, it becomes, well, more different!!
And its certainly been a durable product, and bad products Don't last - just look at VS