As I’ve noted before, if you want to succeed in dragging your medieval country into modernity against its will, you had better be on a par with Peter the Great or Frederick the Great. MBS looks more like Mohammed the Mediocre; his “accomplishments” include starting a bloody and inconclusive war in Yemen, attempting to hijack the government of Lebanon, and murdering a prominent journalist with strong ties to your most important ally. It’s hard to see anything great in that.
Nevertheless, MBS has his heart in the right place in some respects, it is still early in his career, and his country is too important to be rejected or ignored. Saudi Arabia will continue to be an American ally of sorts while Biden is president. The days of unconditional love and the blank check, however, are over. It will be strictly business for the next four years.