As a young Witness, I thrived on the Babylon Has Fallen tome of several hundred pages. As biased as that heavy book was, it demanded close attention to detail. It was a ponderous, well annotated work that credited readers with intelligence and the ability to reason. I read and re-read that book several times. Yet, even at that time - I started to first read it at age 12 in the late 1960s - I think it was released in the mid-60s -I noticed that many Witnesses were daunted by the book. Some older ones even suggested I studied it to "show off" - a mean and bizarre thing to say to a young boy who loved reading! These people have long comprised generous numbers of poorly educated souls whose defensiveness had them criticising anyone else who loves studying and reading.
Anyway, here we are several decades later and the dumbing down has now resulted in absolute babyfood literature with nothing approaching the deeper things of the earlier decades. Baby food for babies, leaving the adults with active brain cells starving for intelligent reading.