I agree.
Although my main focus when archiving ROMs is: When was it made? By who and for which company? Why was it cancelled? How to play it? and Can it be saved (and shared) for the future?
But there is a story in between that's often interesting to tell and know as well: When, how and why did it get lost? and When, how and why was it found?
As CaptainBreakout already explained: some people are not too eager to tell everything for various reasons and we have to respect that.
I've learned this myself through the years: the harder you try to push on a 'story' button, the longer it sometimes takes to hear it, especially when people are not too willing to share it.
Sometimes there's a lot of money involved, sometimes people made promises to others, sometimes there's legal and copyright stuff involved, sometimes people just don't want the attention.