Shock! Horror! VS automatically assigns adjacent seats to passengers travelling together on a single booking. And it does it in advance of OLCI so that those checking in can't make a mess of the seat map and force those travelling together to sit separately?

And somehow this is a bad thing?

I'm no fan of "Light", "Basic Economy", etc. fares which is why I pay more to avoid them, but they do come with the expectation that you might not get a very good seat.