Branch representative praising the governing body for seven minutes straight

There was a zone visit in Canada this weekend, and the visiting brother from the Britain branch committee devoted a full seven minutes of his talk just to praising every member of the governing body. The way I see it, there's two possibilities:

A) The branch committee member went way off script and decided on his own to name eleven individual men, and heap unwanted praise upon them. If that was true, it speaks to the place the org is currently in. There is so much attention and adoration given to this group that even a branch committee member can get swept up into it.

B) The governing body is directing branch representatives to name each of them in their visits and talk about how humble they are.

This kind of specific and lengthy praise given to the men in charge would have been unheard of in the org even two decades ago. Not since the days of Rutherford has this organization been so focused on the people at the top.