What level of feedback detail do applicants currently receive? I would expect that giving a few more bits beyond a simple yes/no would have a good ROI, e.g. at least having the grantmaker tick some boxes on a dropdown menu.
“No because we think your approach has a substantial chance of doing harm”, “no because your application was confusing and we didn’t have the time to figure out what it was saying”, and “no because we think another funder is better able to evaluate this proposal, so if they didn’t fund it we’ll defer to their judgment” seem like useful distinctions to applicants without requiring much time from grantmakers.
Opening with a strong claim, making your readers scroll through a lot of introductory text, and ending abruptly with “but I don’t feel like justifying my point in any way, so come up with your own arguments” is not a very good look on this forum.
Insightful criticism of the capital allocation dynamics in EA is a valuable and worthwhile thing that I expect most EA Forum readers would like to see! But this is not that, and the extent to which it appears to be that for several minutes of the reader’s attention comes across as rather rude. My gut reaction to this kind of rhetorical strategy is “if even the author doesn’t want to put forth the effort to make this into a coherent argument, why should I?”
[I have read the entirety of The Inner Ring, but not the vast series of apparent prerequisite posts to this one. I would be very surprised if reading them caused me to disagree with the points in this comment, though.]