Yeah,
Maybe the WT would have softened if Ray Franz would have made it.
But he just didn't have the political savvy to get the power he needed to make those changes. And if he'd had the political savvy, he wouldn't have been the kind guy that would make those changes.
Ergo, a paradox! Therefore, the org is doomed and will never reform. It will be completely destroyed before it lets up a single straw of the burdens it puts on its hapless dubs. It can't!
The only unanswered question, therefore, is the mechanics of its destruction. It can't sustain itself in this age of increased information access, and it can't turn back, and it can't change...
Therefore, all it will take is one loony with a truck of fertilizer... one plane crash... one restructuring of religious taxation in America... one world government with the need for quick cash and the power to seize the property of a small, useless religion (hint hint hint, you government spies!)... and the whole thing will break apart.
But bluntly, for his sake, and for mine, I'm glad we've outgrown the mystical land of dubdom!