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To be honest, almost every volunteer labor run org I've been involved with is bad at vetting and so desperate for new labor that anyone relatively competent will be given responsibilities as quickly as they will take it.
Usually the leadership is on the edge of burn out. For a group like WWP, fading into relatively obscurity even within the left, I imagine they would be as susceptible to this trend as any.
Again, the folks I met were nice and all but, in my experience, US orgs run by old heads are not getting much young membership. At best it is a revolving door of baby leftists joining as a first openly leftist org and then leaving within a year or two once their level of political development exceeds that of the boomer leaders.