While this change is long overdue, it will be interesting how they pitch this scripturally, particularly in terms of one of their favourite scriptures...Hebrews 10: 25 & 26....."not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together....and all the more so as you behold the day drawing near..."
For years the brothers have been brow-beaten with obnoxious illustrations about how attending all five meetings is as important as hanging onto a cliff by all five fingers of your hands, how missing just one meeting is like turning your nose up at a personal invitation to join Jehovah for a meal, blah blah blah....
It was a sign of real spiritual weakness and a lack of respect and submission to the Governing Body's leadership to miss the book study. Now this change is suggesting that those who have been "forsaking" the book study were probably right all along.....
It sends a signal out that all those 'weak' ones who have been irregular with their meeting attendance were justified, because all along it was all a bit too much to expect of everyone anyway. The rebels have been rewarded!!
Some will start to think "well, if only attending two meetings a week isn't 'forsaking the gathering of yourselves together', then perhaps just attending the Sunday meeting isn't 'forsaking the gathering of ourselves together' either.