And yet, as Burnham grew up she could also see the benefits to being emotional while watching Amanda navigate life on Vulcan.
Being raised by one Vulcan parent who controls his emotions constantly might not have caused so much internal turmoil on its own, but it makes quite a bit of sense that Burnham would feel pressure to act Vulcan being raised around Vulcans almost exclusively.
According to what Sonequa Martin-Green told IGN, it actually sounds a lot as though Burnham went through a similar experience to the one Spock went through, being half human and half Vulcan, but with the added trauma of having her biological parents killed and then being raised in a truly alien culture that she had no actual connection with.