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Nah, I meant now. Like if you didn't order ahead, you just get a random seat. So it negates the being early advantage, but all else is pretty much equal otherwise. I'm the opposite on pretty much all that. I don't really want to show up 20 minutes before the showtime because it means I have to sit through about 40 minutes of ads/trailers (I've timed it to about that before). Definitely not tired of people 'saving' seats for their friends by throwing their coats over them for that 40 minutes and asking people to move. I'm in it for the big screen and sound though, not necessarily to share the experience with the other people I don't know.
I get you on refunds/not showing up though and people showing up after the movie started. Though that has kind of always happens to me in theaters without assigned seats also. I mildly complained about a group of teenagers showing up late to Nosferatu, playing on their phones, then getting up a second time to get drinks and stuff 20 minutes into the movie.