Thank you so much for sharing your experience! I got the impression it's even worse in QR.
In addition that apartments are a lot worse than EK, no LOL insurance, cut in education money for kids, etc. At least my impression, between EK and QR, EK is a lot better option for a pilot.
In short, would you recommend an FO to go to EK? Cause most people in the QR thread say "get the upgrade, apply for QR". Well, not directly to me, but whenever anyone asked a similar question.