If true it certainly doesnt mean the end is just around the corner still. What it does mean is that these people are motivated by their feelings and not by their intellect .
Many people leave the religion however the religion never leaves them.A people with low self-esteem and would rather someone do their thinking for them rather than they use their own brain to analyse what is being said to them by the WT.
When their is a percieved crisis in the world the fear of Armageddon takes over their rationale and they flock back to the KH.
When things quite down they leave off again until the next crisis in the world.
If they took the time and effort to educate themselves doctrinally in the first place they wouldnt fall into this never ending cycle.