It’s well-known that the OU is the gold standard in physical hashgacha, but not in the level of chumra they’re makpid. That’s why, as someone above pointed out, lots of people don’t eat plain OU meat, not because they don’t trust the OU tod do what it says it will, but because the level they stick to is less than what yeshivaleit are comfortable with. Examples are cases where they paskin leniently about bishul akum, etc., meaning the hashgacha is great, but the psak, not so much. Now, before I get flack for this, I KNOW the psakim are from R Belsky, you just need to understand he was paskening for a national hechsher, not yeshivaleit. I once heard someone explain that as the reason for maintaining an OU and a chaissidish hechsher: one to know the food is kosher, and the other for the chumros.
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