IS there no recourse for grassroots changes? Is there no recourse for people who have invested their lives completely in an organization and feel like it has used and abused them?

"Most of the two hundred individuals who invested in the Safety Society were Church members, many of whom blamed Joseph Smith for their losses, thereafter questioning his authority and ability to receive divine direction. Lacking confidence in Joseph and the First Presidency’s leadership, a number of men sought to take control of the Church with the intent to force the First Presidency from office and then oust them from Kirtland entirely. The opposition group was led by Warren Parrish, one-time scribe and secretary to Joseph Smith. Other dissenters included Apostles John F. Boynton and Luke and Lyman E. Johnson; Seventies Hazen Aldrich, Leonard Rich, and Sylvester Smith, John Gould, and John Grayson; and even Martin Harris, one of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon. The dissenters not only openly opposed the Mormon leadership but they also pursued civil action and criminal lawsuits and in some instances threatened their lives."
https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/joseph-smith-prophet-and-seer/joseph-smith-northern-missouri-1838

Maybe they really are prophets?

https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Question:_Did_Elder_David_B._Haight_make_an_astrological_reference_that_people_should_%27do_nothing_without_the_assistance_of_the_moon%27%3F

https://www.moongiant.com/calendar/April/1830/

Hehe.
Haight said the local planetarium and the "Naval Observatory" in England confirmed that there was a full moon on April 6, 1830.

Except there wasn't. It was on April 8th, 1830.

Another GA caught in a lie. Big surprise.

Full is a relative term in revelations!