Well said.
I look back, with a special fondness, at the times spent in pre-convention work. The days and hours spent with dear friends, many who have long since past. The downfall of this started with telling the friends that the only ones qualified to work in various departments were ministerial servants and elders. They trained the folks to no longer be volunteers. In essence they told them you're not good enough to give, get the hell out of here. So that's what they've done, gotten out. Now look how hard it is to get people to work at conventions.
The controlling interests in Brooklyn would have dubs do nothing but go in service, read the Watchtower, and go to meetings. Anything else is scummy dross in their opinion.
Why is that beautiful Kingdom Hall properties can't be used as a secure place for our children to meet and play, and picnic together? Now congregations are told don't you dare come to a Kingdom Hall in time of disaster, we don't have the insurance for it. The Kindom Hall is a center of pure worship only at the whim of the legalistic minds in Brooklyn. To hell with them.