And as a half-human working in Starfleet, Spock more than likely had a unique insight and mental flexibility traditional VSA trained Vulcans lacked. He had noticed it in T’Mia and T’Lun, before and after they had undergone the conversion to become hybrids. Even though most of their biochemistry and physiology and nervous system were now Vulcan (or more accurately hybrid), they still had the same almost illogical tendencies to skip steps, to intuit accurate and valid avenues of research.