Got my EIB around 94 or so, when yes, there were CIBs, may of them cheaply earned, from Desert Storm. Got my CIB ten years later. You can have my EIB.
An EIB is a test you study for. Some are hard, not so hard, but it is just another academic test with some PT thrown in. It may or may not be harder or easier but it is another test which is similar to people who test for things like high school, college, entering this job or whatever. Everybody in this country has taken some sort of test; EIB is just another one.
Getting your CIB can cost you your life. The CIB was awarded to reflect the fact that in WWII, infantrymen were getting killed and wounded out of all proportion to their numbers in the Army.
If you are more proud of your skillful ability to demonstrate your proficiency at training for war, rather then being in an fighting in a war, then you are missing the point of being in the community in the first place.