As far as I can tell, pretty much the same objections you discuss could be raised against animal causes. Yet I hardly ever see these objections being raised. I don't recall, for instance, David Thorstad pointing to the millions Open Philanthropy spends on corporate animal welfare campaigns as "the price of EAA". I think such an objection would be pretty weak, and that's also why I don't think much of the analogous objections to longtermism.
As far as I can tell, pretty much the same objections you discuss could be raised against animal causes. Yet I hardly ever see these objections being raised. I don't recall, for instance, David Thorstad pointing to the millions Open Philanthropy spends on corporate animal welfare campaigns as "the price of EAA". I think such an objection would be pretty weak, and that's also why I don't think much of the analogous objections to longtermism.