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My kids had their moments when they were little, but they were generally excellent travelers.

I'd rather have a flight free of idiotic adults who:

Constantly get up and force those in the seats in their path to do likewise.
Grab window seats and keep the shades pulled for the duration of the flight or, conversely, keep the shades up even when the setting sun or rising sun is clearly annoying their fellow passengers.
Refuse to buy two seats or move over, even when their fat ass is hanging over into yours.
Have to have their seat all the way down into your lap for the entire duration of the flight, even when they aren't asleep.

Most kids eventually give up on making a nuisance of themselves. The above examples of adults (and more) do not.

With the pitch of seats today I hardly ever recline my seat. It has gotten to the point where you can't even get a laptop on the tray table.

I will also never ever, ever never, never ever fly on a red eye that connects through Vegas. That was the weirdest flight I've ever been on.

I’ll add to your list, lol.

*People who take aisle seats and sleep the whole flight, so when middle or window seated passengers have to get up we feel like heels. (I always take the aisle so I can stretch and I can’t sleep on flights, even really long ones.)

*People who decide to use the flight time to clip their finger nails, and let the clippings fling off in all directions, amongst other gross grooming practices.

I remember one flight when my brother and I were kids where I had a window seat and my brother had an aisle seat, and in between us was an obese man who REFUSED to let us sit next to each other and he smoked what seemed like a carton of cigarettes blowing the smoke in our faces. Of course that was when smoking on planes was still allowed. This must have been a last minute trip or something for us to have gotten stuck in those seats, at least I hope it was because I doubt our parents had banked on us being tortured for 5-6 hours!