As I said, the price you paid for your seat may and often will vary from that paid by the person next to you by factors including purchase time, seat "quality" (which includes location), extra features such as legroom & recline, spikes in demand, etc.
I'm stating the simple - and well-known - fact that the price paid by the person in 17C (aisle) can be quite different from that paid by the person in 17D (also aisle).
I flew over 150 legs last year. Premier status on three different airlines.
Please stop with the ad hominen attacks and learn something about this market.
The original claim was "We do row-by-row because, generally, people with higher status and/or fares sit closer to the front".
Everything you've written does not support this claim at all. Maybe you should learn something about reading comprehension.
"The fares are exactly the same in the entire section of the cabin"
Which is simply put, completely false.
My response was: "The fares (on most airlines) are absolutely not the same throughout an entire section"...
Maybe you should learn something about logic and argumentation.
Are tickets differently priced at different times? Yes. Any idiot knows this: the airlines change prices over time to extract more money from last-minute buyers. This isn't what I was talking about, and it's obvious that's not what I was talking about, so if that's the basis of your argument, then you're a pedantic asshole.
The legroom and recline is all the same within the same section, except for the exit rows.