I gotta believe this is a fake thread. I mean, why would anyone get upset because UA sold e+ seats?
I've traveled quite a bit with my wife and she's a 1P and I'm 1K. We book an aisle and window seat hoping it'll be open but most times someone comes and takes the middle which, of course, we then switch off so we have the middle and aisle seat and the person has the window seat. There have been times I've looked around and there's a number of middle seats open.
I just figure it's the luck of the draw and never think it's because maybe the open middle seat is between two 1K/UGS so I "lost" the middle because of status.
This is worth getting bent out of shape?