Most Saudis were Beduins a few years back, and their ethos still permeates the country. Nobody was freer than the Bedu and the cowboys of yore, and just as these traditions still are alive in Texas, they remain so in the KSA.
In dictatorships, you do well to ignore all "official" writings. Just as Iran and the former Warsaw Pact countries went through monumental changes within years as despots were removed, the Middle East could be completely different, a la Chile within 10 years. This requires some settlement to the problems in the holy land, but, as the costs of not doing so are becoming bigger and bigger, we'll see it happen. Soon.