Like Wendover? "However."

Wendover and Asianometry I would expect to both be exceptions. Wendover's delivery, especially for informative content, is among the best I've ever heard.

Like RealLifeLore, extremely annoying clickbaity bullshit.

Good channel but a bit lacking when you actually know the topic well yourself.

That's every channel, eventually.

It's also why I stopped reading The Economist on development economics and foreign aid issues.

Did you find better? Do share

Yes, through personal experience in the field and maintaining communication and friendships with those still in the industry. I realized a long time ago that the Economist's material is entirely based on second-hand information (think tank, government and NGO reports), mixed in with a few sentences about market liberalization.

I work for a company that makes industrial water filtration systems and his video on water filtration systems for the semiconductor industry still taught me things.

Yeah I mean it's youtube. I know nothing about Semiconductors. I'm not looking for a doctoral thesis.

I haven't found this to be the case.

He gets praised consistently for doing a solid job from people in the field.

He also gets corrected very often, no need to cherry pick your impressions to make it sound its perfect or something.

When you only have access to third party sources there is no way you can get everything right.

Yep always positively surprised by the quality of the research done - almost always learn something new