This is quite sad. As a loyal EK flyer, I decided a couple years ago to try out EY to see what it was like and compare albeit in Y. The only two things I thought gave EY a leg up over EK were the blanket/pillow and headphones. E-box is nowhere as good as ICE, status pax in Y only get to use the Al-Reem lounge
in AUH whereas in DXB I have access to J lounge. Food wasn't as good as EK IMO and they use narrowbodies on many flights in the 5 hour range. Would definitely like to try them out in J though!