personally, i feel that qatari men are so humble,caring and thier hospitality is awesome. i have never seen any other nationality which can compete to these qualities of qataris.
with this current system of employment and exit permits , if you deal with qatari's its okay to have one such since they don't abuse the privilege which is granted to them. however, often it turns out to be an abused work culture here because of the loop holes in the system.the labour laws are always one sided . inorder for them to grow , its required to change this labor laws .
if expats are leaving the country after making a lot of debts on their bills and all, they have to find another methods for preventing such(like taking an advance amount /caution deposit/credit limit for services like electricity and phone..etc . ofcourse this laws (exit permit and sponsorship rules) are not the solution . since the these laws are always one sided, i doubt , whether its islamic(since islam preaches the laws to be always equal opportunistic-in business, many preachers says that the insurance and share markets are unislamic because it doesn't address the case of business making loss). if we expand the meaning to the labor , its doesn't make sense at all. more over islam discourage slavery. the labor laws are already a virtual (modern day) slavery-according to the PM of qatar. when we put all these together, my personal belief is its unislamic .
inorder for qatar to grow up to the international standards, the country has to be a land of opportunities- thats how they made it in america and europe. for labors here , its always a loss situation, though they work for money , after sacrificing a lot of freedom.
I had seen many talented people refusing to come to qatar just saying the reason-"I don't want my manager to decide on my freedom to move around.he can do that in office , not in my rest of the life". so in effect, only a few talented people comes here . so the potential is always diminished for the country to compete. of course the world cup 2022 is not end-of the world. qatar has the potential to grow beyond that. but it has to go though the process of growth. again, its my personal opinion and not any kind of advocacy.