>>>>>In my opinion window seats are much preferred ...

I would add to your reasons: the enormous, cracking thunderstorms that stretched the whole sky I saw recently flying out of MEM stretching from MEM to BNA--mind blowing; the dappling lights in mountainous valleys through Tennessee at dusk that define cultural geography in the heartland; the gorgeous russet colors of fall in the upper midwest from MKE to MSP across Lake Winnebago; the stunning view of my own 4-lakes home region in MSN when flying from DTW to MSP after a bump that put me out of the standard route home; the pattern of human inhabitance of the islands in Lake Erie--dotted by airfields, ports, lighthouses, and homes on the 20-minute hop from Cleveland to Detroit; the stunning shift from SFO to SJC population to east bay strings of cities to mountains to Tahoe and lake to mountains that form the legacy of our westward expansion in the 1800's to the present; the soaring tropical clouds and patterns of lights that show the post-air-conditioning inhabitation of the Florida peninsula in one grand sweep when flying into MCO. I think I omitted a few hundred other reasons!