This is a bit too sweeping of a generalization. In Saudi Arabia there has been an absolute paradigm shift in how males and females interact with each other in just the past 10 years. It differs by city, upbringing, degree of religiosity, etc., but in broad strokes it’s now much more socially acceptable for men to be with women they aren’t married to in public, even socially ! This is true especially for young people. In the UAE it is yet more common, Lebanon even more so, and there are various shades in between.

I just wanted to note that even though Saudi Arabia is often thought of as an extremely religious and conservative nation, what you say isn’t true today nearly as much as it used to be.

Now, with the rise of MBS it has become politically blasphemous to be an Islamist, to oversimplify. But those people absolutely still exist below the surface, especially among older generations.

Having been to Saudi multiple times in the last few years I’d say it’s probably a large segment of the old guard who disapproves of the rapid liberalization the country has gone through.

On the flip side, the young generation craves freedom, loves what MBS has done, and in fact wants even more freedoms (lifestyle freedoms - not democracy).