It’s been alluded to already, and of course I don’t discount that EK pilots are unnecessarily tired (that is the Dubai aviation model after all)...
1. Your company has put the fear of God in you to never ‘fly the aircraft.’ As it’s said before, you instead create convoluted procedures that nobody understands to do the most basic thing; flying the plane and looking outside.
It is what it is, Middle East aviation culture is incapable of self-reflection and progressive changes from within. Too arrogant to listen to what other countries have done to mitigate risk and continually marching forward to keep profits high, pilots fatigued, and accidents in the woodwork.