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Lets try and see why there is a dawah weakness amongst Deobandis.

3 things come to my mind (and these apply generally to all Muslims):

-Inflexibility. Having cookie-cutter identical looking Deobandi Muslims means there is only one door to enter Islam through. It probably is not a realistic expectation to think all converts will become Hanafis. Putting all the eggs in one basket means one loses out on the breathing space that difference of fiqh opinions allows. If you have Hanafis trying to teach Shafi'is their own madhhab, then its going to get suffocating...but tolerating ikhtilaaf would make Deobandis more rugged, versatile and accommodating. There are many doors to Islam, so lets open a few more.

-Lack of yaqeen. You won't be able to convince someone of Islam unless you have conviction and until you have that conviction you will not want to share Islam with others. This is usually the first problem would-be daiees encounter. When there is no yaqeen, you start to force people into looking, dressing and acting religious rather than nurturing their eman, which is really what its all about.

-Spiritual methodology. In the time of the Salaf and the early Muslims, the spiritual methodology was zuhd, in the time of Jalaluddin Rumi it was mahabba, and awliya say the spiritual path is through shukr in our time. Having a focus on a spiritual theme would resonate with Hindus, and personally I think Hindus would be impressed by humility (tawadu) while the South African blacks would be impressed by generosity.

India is the only Muslim land where idols are still worshipped openly and idolatry continues to thrive even though the ulema and awliya have opposed shirk there for centuries. I think dawah in India and abroad will only become harder with time as fitan increase and as Muslims grow hard-hearted and become accustomed to shirk and heedlessness.

Those are just some ideas...I still don't know what to make of the shaykhs criticism.