Spinister is definitely on the social end of the Decepticon spectrum considering his casual usage of teammates as armrests. It was pretty typical for low ranking soldiers to be crammed into tiny spaces together and you either killed your roommate(s), or your personal bubble got smaller as an adaptive measure.

The latter was generally violently encouraged by ticked off commander sorts.

"Why would it mean anything? Mask slits for cooling's always been a thing." Still, he does pause in momentary thought before adding, "I mean, this particular style of double slits was kind of common with Decepticons because a lot of us blokes were made in the same factory in Kaon and then we took over the factory and just used a lot of the same designs because it worked and why change a good thing that wasn't broke, you know?"

After that, he just shrugs and concludes, "So it's kind of weird if you weren't cold con'd in Kaon before the war. Or a Decepticon. I guess."