I really hate this kind of comment. Oh look it’s a lame apology! Come on now! Just admit that no matter the words you already made up your mind about the subject. You don’t really get those personality traits from the text. You get those from your already established impression of the subject.

The issue is the condition on the apology:

> If this “experiment” personally harmed you, I apologize

Essentially: the person isn't actually apologizing. They're sending you a lambda (or an async Promise, etc) that will apologize in the future but only if it actually turns out to be true that you were harmed.

It's the sort of thing you'd say if you don't really believe that you need to apologize but you understand that everyone else thinks you should, so you say something that's hopefully close enough to appease everyone else without actually having to apologize for real.

Sounds like you’re projecting a bit. I had no context of the situation before reading the apology and it felt very self-absorbed to me as well.