So, you are completely discarding the idea of finding one's ruin?
Finding one's ruin is a sales technique used in every area of commerce. You can not sell something to someone until they know the problem they are solving by buying it.
Again, deciding to take action to fix the thing in your life that is "ruining" it, is a position of strength, not weakness.
In most cases, the decision to improve your "ruin" using Scientology led to real improvement in the life of a Scientologist - or else they would have never become a Scientologist.
It's only when you stop questioning Scientology and adopt the blind loyalty they increasingly require of you, that you are fucked.
A similar thing has happened here on ESMB. There is an abundance of unquestioning blind loyalty here.
It happens to anyone who stops questioning, doesn't stand up to threats, and who just does whatever they can to fit in and be seen as "ethical" by their fellow group members.
Yes. Scientology does exploit the loyalty you willingly give them. Eventually, they make you work against your own self-interests. But you are, and always have been, in control of your own loyalty.
But the cult member stereotype of "you joined at a vulnerable time in your life" is, more often than not, false.