Sometimes I wonder if people even read these magazines..
As Crompton observed, current JW leaders don't understand the basic assumptions and precepts of their predecessors because they simply take the doctrines their predecessors came up with for granted. They're like children tinkering with a running engine.
Confusion over the appointment of the slave is one example. Another striking example is directly connected to the 1995 change in how a generation should be defined.
The rubric under which the Great Crowd doctrine was conceived and formulated was a chronological understanding of a generation. Therefore the clock started ticking the instant the great crowd was identified, which is something that older publications frankly acknowledged..
"Especially beginning in 1935, when the identity of the “great multitude,” or “great crowd,” was clearly understood, large numbers of these began to manifest themselves....God’s infallible Word depicts this group as ‘coming out of the great tribulation,’ being survivors of it, living right on into God’s New Order without ever having to die. (Revelation 7:9, 10, 14; John 11:26) The early members of this group are now in their 60’s or 70’s or older. Jehovah did not allow the ingathering of this group to begin too soon. The “great crowd,” including many of the earliest members thereof, will survive into the “new earth.”
The '95 generation change yanked the rug out from under the Great Crowd teaching itself.