I understand that the JW's no longer actively teach that the "Creative Days" were necessarily 7000 year periods.
This would extricate them from the idea that the millenium of Christ (The Golden Age) absolutely must coincide with the 7th millenium of Mankind's existence. (The last thousand years of God's Sabbath.)
However chucking the idea that 1975 marked the end of the 6th millenium is far more complicated than just that.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, the Witnesses still teach among other things, that the second and final conquest of Jerusalem ocurred in 607 BC, that Babylon fell in 539 BC and that Jesus died in 33 AD. at the age of ~33 1/2. Further, they solidly link these two periods (BC & AD) with their interpretation of the "70 weeks of years" of Daniel 9.
Having established what they believe to be "pivotal dates" in both eras, and having embraced the idea that the Bible presents an accurate albeit relative chronology, the Witnesses are pretty much stuck with the idea that Adam was created c. 4026 BC.
The implications regarding 1975 are therefore obvious and inescapable. In the framework of Witness teaching, 1975 marked the start of the 7th millenium. The Witnesses can choose to talk about this or not as it pleases them, but they can't deny it without further modification to their unique chronology.
What the Witnesses seem to actually have "chucked" is the significance they once attached to this anniversary
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