Do the interlopers consider this need for peer acceptance a weakness?

This is very much the case because the yearning for consensus and acceptance is a desire to be loved, and that is an emotion the interlopers lack entirely. They are devoid of love feelings, any love impulse, and see any desire for love and dependence on love for happiness personally as a flaw and an outstanding characteristic and reason, with their racist views, they disdain humans. It is not your physical appearance or skin pigmentation, it is your makeup as a divine extension in valuing closeness, acceptance of one another by being loving and supporting and encouraging, and making personal sacrifices to others to help them feel good, all of which the extraterrestrials cannot understand as having any value whatsoever and see it as a major flaw in the human makeup.