The dropping will happen........
Here is what I expect to see in my lifetime.
1. Gene Smalley dies, the blood issue is no longer written about or discussed....the distancing begins.
2. After a decade a BOE letter announcing that the WTS still disapproves but encourages repentance only...auto DA is gone.
3. The magic number has arrived! When the only JW living have all been baptized after June 1985 only then will it be fully stricken, never to be spoken of again....of course by this time no one will have heard of the blood ban in several decades.
Result.....Coffers safe from lawsuit and blood on it's hands. The WTS own Akeldama