I feel the way many of you do. Something about this seems different.
Then I got to thinking, look at the mag covers and cover topics in the last few years and compare them with those from say the 80s. ALREADY much has changed it seems to me.
At least in my local cong. it feels like a mellower vibe. The constant referrals to the imminent end of this system is made by the brothers locally in talks etc and not so much by the publications.
Oral (and anal for that matter) sex between a husband and wife is purely their business now when at one time you could get the big DF. (was in the WT study a couple weeks ago)
So yes, I think changes are coming as they've BEEN coming for some time.
It would be interesting to use the sentence "The GB can make mistakes when explaining the Bible"
when defending a point of view differing from the org.