It's a personal choice that you need to get some exposure to before you decide.
The first thing that you need to know is that HCRI is based on the CCT(color temp), and is only applicable with that color temp. Many HCRI LEDs are in the "warm" category with color temps lower than 4000K CCT. These are the ones which people describe as being "like an incandescent lamp". In other words, not white. Be aware. It's going to look yellow or brownish in the beam. They do this to try to balance off the color spectrum, and it ends up not being a white light anymore. If you shine it on a white wall, or anything else white, it isn't going to look white. How this can be considered good color rendering when it can't even do white correctly, is quite a mystery to me. If you want white, this might bug you.
Second, the HCRI output is significantly less because they have to put all those layers of colored coatings on the LED to get that CCT. That output reduction might not be noticeable at close range, but the distance throw will be less. Sometimes it might be a lot less.
So, even if you like the High CRI beam color for where it reaches, the CRI is zero for distances that the light cannot reach. The higher power cool white LED will throw further.
Can it throw far enough for what you want?
Only you can answer that.
I have tried various CCT and CRI lights, and my opinion is that it is definitely a "see-able" difference in color-shading, but that the cool lights are still good enough for me to tell what colors things are.
So, it comes down to color-shade variations, and how important that is for your applications, IMO.
I decided that since I could tell what color it was with the cool light, and I could see a lot more with the cool light because it has higher output and goes further, that I didn't need to have that subtle color-shade distinction. I could tell if it was a red car, or a green leaf, or whatever, just fine. I wasn't doing color photography for National Geographic. I just need to be able to see in the dark. If my goal was to take in the breathtaking natural colors of various landscapes on nature walks, then maybe the HCRI would have been more important to me.
But my decision that I would prefer to have the higher output and more light from the cool, because I could see the colors well enough for my use, even if color rendering wasn't perfect.
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