I'm impressed you could write this without the self-awareness to realize this only makes your team look worse.

The idea that vaguely saying sorry to an abstract community should resolve this entire issue is repulsive. Merely stating an apology does not thereby grant you forgiveness.

I had a neighbor who once tore up my yard doing construction. They apologized profusely, but outside of words never made any meaningful recompense. If I complain about the damage am I in the wrong simply because he utter some words of apology?

The tone here sounds like you're more annoyed that Casey was right and wish you could go back to feeling clever.