It’s a strategy for blame shifting.
Recognize that the sentence starts with “the community could have reflected”? If mods indeed had a bad day, no, it’s not them who might need to reflect, but THE COMMUNITY.
The same for the vulgar remarks by @pierreaubert. No, it couldn’t be possible that Pierre himself chose the words inappropriately. It must be, instead, ALL OF US COMMUNITY MEMBERS who misunderstood who exactly Pierre meant by “jerks”.
This is the current Parity leadership you are dealing with, and who is supposed to lead Polkadot to success.
I feel really fortunate that I got off the ship just in time.