"I am sorry", in this case, was meant in its plain meaning of "I feel sorrow about this being the case".
Not everything is a tactic. Sometimes people just mean what they say.
Not everything is a tactic. Sometimes people just mean what they say.
That's called shifting the blame because you're shifting the responsibility and consequences of your actions onto someone else. That is not how one begins an apology. An apology begins as "I am sorry. I will reflect and consider the feedback given and do better next time. Please feel free to give further feedback if you feel like it and I will consider it and improve my behavior".
I accept that my phrasing was not entirely clear but given having made what I meant explicit and still being attacked I'm unsure that my mistakes were the primary problem in this case.