Buckets are sporty but nothing like a bench. When I was younger I went on a bucket seat campaign and I swapped so many cars to bucket seats, till i started driving them as daily drivers. Now I find myself paying hundreds of dollars for original benches, same ones I tossed when I was a young dumbass.
If you get a chance to drive a long distance on a bench, you will probably leave it. They sold a lot of benches when these cars were new for very good reason. Imo