Agreed. If they don't care about the history, they don't need a vcs. There's no point in keeping a history if the history isn't helpful

I think they somewhat do care about the history, but only as a backup and list of older versions and as bunch of potential merge bases. But they do not care about the history as in the evolution and causality. It really depends on what you see as the history, so it is a manifestation of a somewhat philosophical problem.