UK Civil Servant and prolific tweeter (@EAheadlines)
I think it's fairest to compare HLI's charity analysis with other charity evaluators like Givewell, ACE, and Giving Green.
Giving Green has been criticised regularly and robustly (just look up any of their posts). Givewell publish their analysis and engage with criticism; HLI themselves have actually criticised them pretty robustly! I don't know about ACE because I don't stay up to date on animals but I bet it's similar there.
The dynamics are quite different for example in charitable foundations where they don't need to convince anyone to donate differently, or charities that deliver a service who only need to convince their funders to continue donating.
I don't think this was a reply to me?