I've had a couple of rides today. All of the buses look smart and I have no complaints about the seats even though they are low back. Features are the same as Sapphire anyway with USB's and they still look stylish with lights on the stairs etc.
The Enviro 200's are a very pleasent change on the 57. These have USB's too although they are under the seats so I didn't notice them at first. Not sure what happened with 2704 early on but 2701 was taken off because the destination display would only show the date instead of route number etc.
None of the next stop announcements are on yet on the buses I was on.
RE: Arriva North East: New buses 2022