I agree, cloth seat is more comfortable than any other material, but they do grip your clothes making it nearly impossible to slide on them. 2 or my 3 vehicles have leather seat, "because that is how the come" and wife prefers leather to cloth while I am opposite. My 2007 Z71 Chevy truck has all the necessities without many of the bells and whistles, power driver seat,( manual passenger seat), PS, PB, intermittent wipers, power door locks, crew cab, AC with dual side controls and carpet on the floor, power mirrors (a necessity for dual drivers) and power folding mirrors(good for those 8 foot garage doors which I no longer have, AM/FM radio with single disc CD player, 17" tires with aluminum rims and that is about all the options it has. It is plenty comfortable for long drives. IIRC, I paid $29K for it. I don't know what it would cost me 7 year later (has it really been 7 years!!!)
When I bought the wife a new Honda CRV the dealership had only 2 styles, EX and EXL. She wanted the EXL for the leather seats, but it also came with sun roof which I didn't need, heated leather seats (didn't need) and many more options that I barely find and am finding more each time I drive it. Bought it last August and got 3400 miles on it. Wife prefers to drive here old car (Olds Bravada) because she says it is higher up and give better visibility of what's ahead. I put the old car in my shop which is about 100 feet from the house and the new car in the house garage. Unless it is raining, she walks to the shop to get her old car to drive. I thought we might save gas money with the 31 MPG CRV compared to the 16 MPG of the Bravada, but if she wont drive it, it isn't saving much. It will be in good shape though when we get to that $5 or more per gallon gas.
