I still can't believe that it happened, that's the weird part. And not like anyone is visiting Qatar or think highly of them because of the world cup neither. They overspent for it, and they are not going to get anything back from it neither, it is not going to be good at all. I feel like it is going to be something that they will regret for a long time.
In fact, I am pretty sure that they had more bad light on them because of the world cup than good, and they will be hated a long time because they basically stole the world cup from these teams in the end. I think a smaller balkan nation would have been even better, hotels, stadiums, all of that is ready in most those nations.
Basically it is for the people who matter and not you and me. It is for people who have a lot of money, and it is for Qatar rich people to let all their other rich people to come visit them and show them around and basically network that way. It allows those people who we may dislike but have tens of billions of dollars to just show their western partners how great their nation is.
Dubai is in a middle eastern location as well but everyone loves it, Qatar wanted to be like that as well, all the bad human conditions do not matter when there is a half a billion dollar worth of merger in talks, only more money made from that deal matters to both sides and that's why they did it. Basically they threw a big party.