There can and will be a recovery. But surprisingly a divine judgment of worldwide JW org desolation, which is the precursor (1Pet4:17), is the farthest thing from most JW minds. Yet it is part of the theme of the JW ministry when applied to Israel and Christendom, but not when applied to lawless Bethel.
And all the former patterns JWs know inside and out about Israel's and Christendom's principles of "evil slave", "man of lawlessness", "weeds", "foolish virgins", "reap what you sow" and so on, never make the projection onto the Bethel criminal system of today, by focusing on past positives that are now long gone in JW history. (Eze3:20).
The 1976 obviously failed "Governing Body" experiment is what must be scrapped, admitted and uninstalled with all the policy that empowered the main Bethel compromise and global reproaces (2Pet2:1-3) from that core cell of lawlessness, as the GB, now accepted more by tradition and gradual development since 1976 than any actual JW organizational or Biblical precedent ... is the MAIN cell of leaven and corruption.
Until JWs plainly recognize and admit the Governing Body is NOT in the Bible, but of secular origins as the manmade self-invented vehicle of the Bethel coup of 1976, of course NOTHING is going to change but get far worse, far quicker than the original development, because now it is exponential and systemically terminal in the JW org, from top to bottom. There is no actual divine blessing present on criminal Bethel. (Mal2; Rev8:10-11 in modern form).
Plainly the GB illusion is NOT TRUTH, plain and simple. Not Biblical, not authorized by God, not anointed, not infallable and not found in the Bible as if John, Paul, Peter, James and others all submitted their "articles" and books to the Jerusalem "GB" for approval, comments, and editing. NEVER is a "governing body" mentioned even once in the Bible, the whole thing is a lie, and formed the original nucleus of JW and Bethel lawlessness of today, that ALL originates from that "body" in the Governing Body as the source of ALL JW sin and hypocrisy.
In it's dictatorial power grasp, no other source of JW guidance can be found but the distracting and brazen spiritual criminals and actors in the Governing Body as more a "body" competitive to the one and only Biblical "body of the Christ" (2Thess2:4) as the GB "body" is far more likely that of the "evil slave" and "man of lawlessness", by their own fruitage being now globally recognized.
And until that first cancerous cell and spiritual tumor is removed FOREVER, JWs will continue in that falsehood that is of serious nature, not a petty oversight, but an installed spiritual subversion control center, plain and simple. The GB itslf cannot be "reformed" because they are not scriptural and need to be abandoned and demoted back to a secular "board of directors", which even that they are not in today's WTS, but are a specialized fronting group to lead the subversion, and only in their removal and world apology can JWs ever actually recover.
The cancer is now full blown, the whole JW org has to go down and arise from ashes by God, not human power. (Zech3:2; Zech3:1-7).
In the meantime it will be Bethel lawless business as usual until that divine crash comes; (2Thess2:1-8; Dan8:13-14; 1Pet4:17). And come it will. Justice must be served, and God don't mess around when it comes to BIG JUSTICE. God will remove and fully expose and account the Governing Body and Bethel "weed" system factions to recover what can be salvaged later. (Mal3:1-5).
JWs know the concept, they just don't apply it to the Bethel of today, where it actually applies. (Hosea, the whole book. Micah, the whole book).
It has become a matter of personal JW honesty (or lack of) as a basis for judgment in it's most personal form. (2Thess2:11). It is not "our team good or bad". The GB is B A D, gotta admit it first to recover and flee for now. (Matt24:15), because heavy judgment is coming on Bethel as also a UN agency as UN NGO co-promoters of "the wildbeast". (Dan8:13-14). If one is going to play JW Christian, one must actually play by the rules of the BIBLE, not of a celebrity council of Bethel actors and robotic performers breaking all the basic and advanced rules.