I wouldn't expect the Ways to be drawn to or equipped for the task of the victim-centred narrative. But that's what we need if learning about cults is what we want.
They begin to regard their students as idiots, children, incompetents. They begin to loathe them not only for their immaturity, but even more intensely because they are dependent on that immaturity, that devotion, for their daily bread. They're trapped.