Aren't the Emirates also quite open to the West and at the same time also quite a bit less restrictive on the people who live there?
Not that any of them are beacons of liberal openness, but at least women can drive there and westerners and easterners can work there far more openly than in Saudi Arabia.
I'd hope the new guy is a liberal reformer like Kim Jong Un, but he seems a bit old for that unfortunately. Heard he has dementia though, so maybe he'll go crazy and drop all restrictions while noone can stop him.