Not to mention that the driving factors his nervous breakdown occurred because the rules were flaunted so often when he was on the Lost Light with Rodimus and co.
If we recall when they went to Hedonia for that shore leave and Mags had to check if the bar they went to had fire escapes for him to truly relax.
That Rodimus never really bothered to read.
It’s no wonder Ultra Magnus led the Lost Light to Luna 1 so that Tyrest, (a source of stability for Minimus,) could straighten Rodimus out and such like he did for Minimus himself.
Which no doubt hurt himself so much when Tyrest, the creator of the Accord and one he thought to be a source of stability; was revealed to have went off the deep end and took Minimus’ job…
…(that took him out of the shadow of his brother) then threw him in jail then tried to kill him when Minimus called Tyrest out.
Now when Megatron came around, so came another source for stability as the new co-captain rather than Rodimus.
This would later lead to his feelings of betrayal when Megatron was left behind in that Alternate Cybertron and subsequently made Minimus lose control of the Magnus Armor.
People write off this scene so easily and don’t understand that it was utterly important to Minimus that someone read his reports as opposed to Rodimus who we saw earlier did not read them(Later Rod has to manipulate Mims’ feelings to have him functioning again but words to express that dont come to mind.)
Then to remember Minimus has OCD, all of it makes sense, and having it be taken as a joke? Horrible.