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I’m in camp if they give you the option you have to assume the person in front will fully recline. No point in getting mad over it. If you want or need more space just get the premium seats if it means that much to you.
This is a problem airlines have created making the customer feel morally obligated to solve. Most of the time, people feel bad about doing so that they believe others should behave the same way they feel when that’s not remotely the reality we live in.
There's an (understandable) tendency in rationalist circles to assume social conventions have little value but sometimes they reflect accumulated wisdom. Be a good neighbor and ask before you do something that affects people nearby, regardless of whether you have a unilateral right to do it.
Of course, it helps that their flights are mostly short-haul (mentioned in the article).
seems like the actual problem is the meager space provided in the first place, not the scraps of free room we're forced to battle over
I’ve seen many people break rules or even the law just because they wanted to (failure to wear mask, trying to get their kid to sit in an exit aisle, drinking, drinking in the exit aisle). Some of the rules change flight to flight. Either people’s behavior changes in these spaces, or I should lower my expectations. Probably the latter.