Eight or nine years ago, while I was still an elder, I wrote a long letter to Guy Pierce. It was right after he was named to the GB. Pierce had been had been our CO a few years prior and had been at our home for lunch on a couple of occasions. We worked together in FS and I felt I "knew" him so I thought he would be sympathetic to my thoughts.
I wrote him that since the 1995 generation change there had been a noticeable impact on many JWs, notably the loss of a sense of urgency. I told him many of the "friends" our on the front lines had deduced from the Society's doctrinal adjustment that they may grow old in this system and were beginning to pace themselves. I made several suggestions that I thought the GB ought to consider and, with all due respect, offered them for his review.
Among these was the suggestion that the meeting arrangement be looked at with a view toward folding the book study in with the school and service meeting and give the friends an extra night off a week. I suggested the WTS could then promote that free evening as Family Night, to be devoted to studying for the regular meetings, or personal study. Ironically, the Society did almost exactly that a few years later. My other suggestion was that FS should be revised to include all sorts of "service," and that the publishers should be able to sign up and count their hours for hall cleaning and maintenance, visiting the sick and elderly, and all sorts of "good works" other than just FS, and that all this would be organized by the congregation ahead of time.
There were a couple of other suggestions, and my thinking was these would all benefit the bros and sisters and create a big boost in morale and esprit d'corps and would be met with gratitude and relief by the rank and file.
I realize how hopelessly idealistic I was then. I was channeling my frustrations and disappointment, my disillusionment, into reform. I really thought reform was the answer.
After I spent considerable time polishing this letter and getting every word just right, it dawned on me that the letter would not be well received. So I never sent it. Looking back, I knew on some level that this letter would just cause me problems. So I continued to search for answers on the internet and found this forum (and others). As I studied the "truth about The Truth." I came to realize what a poster, above, said: There is no reform for a cult.
A year or two after writing it, I reviewed that letter and was glad I never mailed it. It was clear to me by then that reform was futile.