Those don’t look anything like spot welds to me. Spot welds should look like tiny circles pushed in not like those dimples in the picture. Plus that’s really odd place for spot welds. If they are not on other R1s then it must be a manufacturing glitch.
Have been lurking around for an year but just got registered. R1T order placed May of last year along with a R1S (eta H1 23) and just took a delivery of R1T last week (9/1). Limestone, black mountain with 22 dark sport. Question for you all who recently took a delivery.... how long did it take...