This is all a massive deflection. Why is CR okay to make recommendations in an "area they're not good at"? Even the most generous interpretations are more damning than your claims.
CR doesn't review this category and a search of past CR review categories doesn't yield moving services. In general, they don't review anything regional.
They have articles on how to avoid dodgy ones but make no recommendations.
And--- I appreciate Consumer Reports' accuracy, but I doubt that they are 100% accurate. There are probably recommendation sets that end up as garbage for one reason or another (incorrect weighting for my use case, statistical noise, evolution in products since survey experiences, etc).
There's also times where I have personal expertise or preferences that outweigh CR's rankings. CR rates computers, after all, and I would probably not weigh them very heavily in my choice.
AAA guidebooks do exactly this. I remember using them to pick hotels in the 90s.
CR do not and have never recommended moving firms.
They in fact have articles on how to avoid being scammed by firms and best practices but make no recommendations.
I think the burden here is on you or others making this claim to link some evidence.