It's not tone deaf so much as it's gaslighting. Their intention isn't to get compliance or work through any of the valid concerns - their intention seems to be to cover themselves and give plausible deniability for potential investors.

They're sending this to mods as if they are the audience, which we know is not the case since anything the mods say is not actually considered.

Except that's not always what's happening. A couple subs I'm in have voted to reopen, when they've had the ability to vote at all (since it's hard to vote when the subreddit is locked).

One voted to reopen and the mods removed the poll and are pretending it went their way despite some people having screenshots of the poll.