I view the veil as something that is self inflicted. The bible points to people being drawn out by their own desires. I can’t say I understand the term “veil” in all its complexity, but if one looks to Jehovah’s attributes, hiding the truth from someone searching for it is not part of it.
If one looks at another’s chosen course of life, each person can justify what they do - it “interests” them and they defend their thinking. This is true of politicians, Popes, leaders and the common man to some degree or other and their defending of that ‘right’ is their enjoyment of it. It meets their needs and that need overrides any argument against it. Thus the scripture to be “drawn out by one’s own desires”, and the critical word if I recall the scripture properly is that Jehovah “allows” this veil. If one allows something to happen, then clearly the act it is not of their own making.
The inference of the scripture may be then, correct me if I’m wrong, that the comfort and progress, their thinking and belief, is a fabrication that they enjoy and feel they have a position in. Just like any politician. Their belief is in themselves. This was true of ourselves when we were in watchtower. We defended the truth did we not.
The love of Jehovah is reflected in this through the parable of the seeds sown on the stoney ground, they spring up, of their own inner strength, but wither quickly because there is no water. The scripture reflects two aspects in my opinion, in that those seeds that spring up on stoney ground have an option given them on finding their home unacceptable to progress, the chance to move on, by Jehovah. At least, that was my experience. I had the opportunity to stay on the stoney ground and wither my life away. So yes, I am of the persuasion that the veil is as deep and as impenetrable as the person wishes it to be. They deceive themselves, and who is so stubborn as one whom believes in themselves? When one reaches a place of ease, and seeming accomplishment and can call it a “blessing if Jehovah” without evidence to the contrary in their heart and soul, who can shift it? They are convinced - emotive claptrap. Jehovah has to terrify them to the core to shift their perspective. Many, I think my sister is one of them, are so intrenched in a lifetime of witnessing that they cannot afford to contemplate the apparent treachery imposed upon them. How sad to view a release to discover the truth is impossible for them because their deceit is too much to bear and they know not of Jehovah’s mercy?