The reason the NWT was released in English (and Korean and Portuguese) was apparently timing. These versions were printed and ready to go before the financial crisis hit Watchtower in 2015.
The question you’ve got to ask is, how bad must the financial position be that they need to sudden sell off branches, send bethelites home, cancel the yearbook, and even cancel Bibles in languages that are apparently already completed.
If Watchtlwer can’t afford to print Bibles now, will they ever be able to print them? Lawsuits are mounting, members are decreasing in rich countries and increasing poor countries. If they are already in trouble now, what is it going to be like next year, and the year after that? How can they turn it around?