I could not agree more ! As somebody said I am sure that Bethel prefers "Company clones" who no doubt accept whatever bullshit they are asked to deliver and just go on and do it. I cannot imagine the following old time C/O's in the UK swallowing everything they were told to do.
Ernie Beaver, ,John Blaney, David Carter, Richard Cullen etc etc ..
They may have talked what we now know to be rubbish, but at least they knew how to talk and be individual.
The same is true in the congregations. My theory is that so many these days are brought up in the Borg and learn by rote, they know nothing else. The ones that I once knew had "come in", had a life before (some quite colourful) fought in the War and knew a little about life.
BTW . My dub family say exactly the same about modern elders and c/o's. Have you heard an expression that grates on them? - "My Theocratic career" ..