Flight to Paris

On domestic US flights the exit aisles are the most sought after seats due to their leg room. I was happy to have been able to reserve two of these seats on our flight from Boston to Paris.  I couldn't have been more disappointed. 
First, on this particular jumbo jet, there is no overhead storage above the seats...and none under the seats in front, as you are seated in a bulk head. The exit row has to share the overhead storage with the row behind.  Air France could care less about this fact. They don't give passengers seated in exit rows the courtesy of boarding the flight early to store luggage.
Second the seats were the most uncomfortable I have ever been in. I didn't expect that they would recline...for some reason even when the seat would be reclining away..not into the exit area...airlines don't recline these seats.  The seat just was gawd-awful...small, width wise and underpadded.
Then the exit row we were seated in was right next to the galley, which was a hub of activity all through the night. Staff working the flight...people popping in for something extra. And the added leg room for us was more like the holding area for people to gather as carts passed through...or others were traveling the aisles.
These weren't exit row seats, they were extra row seats crammed into the cabin to add two more passengers.
We had a horrible flight over...very little sleep...airline food to die for... (no, literally, if you are that food you'd die) and an uninterested airline staff. We landed in Paris as if we had stayed awake with a new born baby.