The Society and it's circuit overseers love to harp on about apostates being caught in the "trap of the birdcatcher". (Psalm 91:3) But it is JW's who are hopelessly trapped in another, equally dangerous snare.
Proverbs 29: 25 "Trembling at men is what lays a snare, but he that is trusting in Jehovah will be protected."
JW's tremble before the Governing Body and their disfellowshipping policy. They fear dissenting from the Society's teachings and being accused of apostasy and being cast out of the congregation. They fear and tremble at the prospect of being shunned by friends and family alike. They fear the constant doomsday message, that the end is near, and that they will be annihilated forever unless they remain a steadfast JW when Armageddon arrives.
Fear of a few old but very powerful men comprising the Governing Body is the motivating force of the entire organisation. Fear and trembling before the GB and their Watchtower Society rules JW's minds and consciences. The GB can say almost whatever they want and the average JW will submissively follow. If that is not trembling before men then what is?
Thus JW's are not fully trusting Jehovah, since they have no faith in Jehovah apart from their total submission to the Governing Body. They are inextricably bound together: unquestioning loyalty to the GB and faith in Jehovah; they are inseparable in the minds and psyche of JW's. They cannot perceive worshipping Jehovah apart from their blind submission to the GB. To fear Jehovah means to fear the GB. And so their fear of Jehovah has become the fear of men's (the Governing Body's) commandments, something Jehovah will punish. - see Isaiah 29:13.
Some who have left the organisation have fallen victim to bitterness and hatred, but that is nothing compared to the massive snare that the entire JW organisation finds itself trapped in, the snare of trembling at their own Governing Body, who demand and ruthlessly enforce complete mental subjection from all those in the organisation they rule over.