Luke's comment addresses the specific point that Holden made about changes in the organization given the change in leadership.

Holden said:

I'm aware that SI has relatively new leadership that is attempting to address the issues behind some of my complaints. I have a generally positive impression of the new leadership; I believe the Executive Director and Development Director, in particular, to represent a step forward in terms of being interested in transparency and in testing their own general rationality. So I will not be surprised if there is some improvement in the coming years, particularly regarding the last couple of statements listed above. That said, SI is an organization and it seems reasonable to judge it by its organizational track record, especially when its new leadership is so new that I have little basis on which to judge these staff.

Luke attempted to provide (for the reader) a basis on which to judge these staff members.

Eliezer's response was... characteristic of Eliezer? And also very short and coming at a busy time for him.