One thing’s for sure…
…they spent decades crediting the WTS’s success with “God’s Blessing” instead of the efforts of shrewd lawyers, competent businessmen, and talented creatives.
Sure, it projects the appearance of humility, but do it long enough (whilst insisting everyone else around you do it, too), and you can’t help but start to believe it for real.
Eventually, all the shrewd lawyers, competent businessmen, and talented creatives retire, pass on, or are given the boot for whatever reason, and you’re left with true-believing successors who are far less practical, and make far more ideology-driven blunders.