Not to get too conspiracy-brained, but it does kinda feel like "release and promote shitty, outrage-bait article; put the apology and clarification on a podcast where ad space is more profitable" might've been the plan here, which is a whole new angle from which this sucks ass.
acemore outlets need to be willing to go "it was a mistake to publish this, we've spiked it because it's damaging." while seerat is asking people to listen to her podcast about what she got wrong, her awful column is still one of the top stories on the ringer.