People (pilots!) always want to believe their version of the truth which normally incorporates big shiny aircraft as some aspirant goal and justification for their career. My experience with EK is that they can certainly supply many hours of aforementioned wide body time but a very large chance of not surviving the experienced unscathed. Even if you are a latter day Chuck Yeager there is always an opportunity for it to go horribly wrong either because of what would have been a trivial issue to completely blameless but nevertheless the dreaded warning letter could still arrive. It may have been repeated time after time but they really are a ruthless, amoral, horrible bunch of people that run EK and the expression caveat emptor will apply.