Regardless if it's pubs fudging numbers or the WT fudging numbers, the stats they publish can't be trusted.
More important is that more and more are becoming mentally free.
Once mentally free the donation$ stop. I know they did in my case.
The lack of $ coming in is what will drive the decline of the WT. We are already seeing it with the quality of the spirutal food coming out.
From that perspective, the decline has started.