OTWO
I dont think it will hit the fan the way most think or want it to.
My SIL read the letter for the new donation arrangement and said 'there just eliminating a contribution box thats all'?!?
IMO this added move of CO making appointments will help to make more company men or cheese and cracker men as JT used to say. Imagine the ego of a PO/COBE who can now pick his body of elders. the perks a CO will get each visit due to said elders wanted to make sure their people are appointed. Just a little move or change but significant in an elderbody arrangement. I remember a lot of elders who were frustrated that people they really wanted appointed would be held up for some trivial procedural issue.
Also I wonder how this will work with the file bethel used to keep on people? Will the CO's have the full files that bethel keeps on former bethelites, missionaries and MTS folk?