A surprisingly large amount of devs, do the work to record data into a VCS (probably because they are told to by colleagues or superiors), but never seem to use them. Then they tell you that generating proper commits isn't all that important. Well, that's because they never actually use the VCS. By my book, only generating commits isn't really using a VCS, that is the information generation part, you also need to do queries on the collected data, otherwise yes it would be quite useless.
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.
