OK, so let's say you're on the GB. For years, you've been getting hundreds of reports from your hired SS agents, er, COs, about poor midweek meeting attendance, people not showing up for talks, crappy teaching from elders, etc.
So, you make the determination - OK! We need to revamp the midweek meeting!
How should we do it?
Here's a couple of choices:
1) Revamp everything - make it fresh, interesting, completely new, something actually helpful that people might even want to attend. Make it about stuff that people are really interested in: How should a Christian cope with illness, economic setbacks, discouragement? Maybe we can have true, honest, round-table discussions - no script, no pre-printed answers, just a topic and a handful of scriptures. Maybe a part on the cultural history of Bible times - who wrote the books, what were their life & times like, who was their intended audience?
OR
2) Let's rename the meeting, shuffle the parts around a little, and add video.
If you are a normal, rational, caring, compassionate human being, obviously you pick Choice 1.
If you are a GB member, the choice is obvious: #2.
Once again, the GB blows a chance at guiding the religion into something that people might actually want to join, or want to remain a part of, without having the threat of isolation from friends and family as the primary enforcement tool.
Disappointing. Sad. Pathetic. Pick your own words.