Because it still leaves us beffing for scraps. Because it under one's the apology. Because it's a slap on the face and a constant reminder that anything granted can be taken away again on the whim of a petty old man and we can easily be forgotten again. It's a reminder that we don't matter as much, a mark of 2nd class citizenship, a subordinating action masquerading as a gesture of amends.

It's dirty pool.

That's why you're pissed.