Here's the thing with this "New Light." Even the bible says that there would be a resurrection of the righteous AND the unrighteous!
It is a huge change, because for the entirety of my life (44 years) and before, the stance always was that "once the Ark doors are closed, there's no hope for anyone else." Hence, the "Judgement Message" during the Great Tribulation. I was always told that once the Great Tribulation broke out, a final "Message of Judgement" would be put out by the JW's. Kind of a sick, "We told ya so!" because all of these signs and End Times stuff would be easy for everyone on the world to witness.
Now, it seems that these very "Signs of the End" could serve as that message, allowing anyone with even half a brain or morality to look up, pray, and repent, in hopes of God's infinite grace and salvation. Any wicked not caring or acting like Satan would then be destroyed in the calamity of Armageddon.
Here's MY theory: I believe this may be a set-up for WT HQ to move even more goal posts. How so? Well, there's plenty of people my age, older, and even a bit younger that know about the "Final Judgement Message." However, WT HQ could NEVER put that out because if it failed they'd once again look like False Prophets. So what to do, what to do?? Come out soon (any day now) and claim that since 1914 or 1918, that earth has already been in the "Great Tribulation" and that all of the preaching work since then has already been a Witness of Final Judgement." Thus, moving the goal posts. Anyone RIGHT NOW can repent and ask for Jehovah's forgiveness and join the JW's and be saved. All JW's would embrace this emphatically, as they await the great day of Armageddon to break out at any time. It moves things up, while simultaneously fear-mongering the JW's even harder that we are "Deep in the End." All of the signs of the Great Tribulation have already been happening since 1914: Wars, famine, pestilence, hell, even the global climate change, etc, etc.
C'mon WT HQ: Run with it! It'll work!