Long Zhiren

These days, I'm a ff that's gotten mostly BE tickets.
Except for the redeye SFO-EWR, last flight of the day for biz routes like SFO-SAN and statistical anomalies like EWR-SJU that are always packed, almost everything else I've seen gets you a row to yourself in BE. Not sure how long this will last. The extra perks of other classes are next to nothing.
Funny thing is that in IRROPS, agents have been putting me into exit rows, E+ or premium economy on rebooking. The pursers will look at my BE boarding pass, scratch their heads. How did you get up here? In these instances, I've always been in too much of a hurry to even know what cabin I'm in until I find my seat.
Lately, in my last couple bookings for identical itineraries, there were no BE fares to be found.
For the fuller flights, when the back of the plane boards first, it's the front part of economy that winds up with no overhead space.