"It's just not important for the general public to know. If it is really that important that you just NEED to know then you should be able to get that information through a FOIA request."
You literally said if someone wants the info, they would have to get it through an FOIA.
That would mean the info is kept under lock and key by the gov't, to be released only when someone requests the info, even though the information should be public in the first place (5 U.S.C. § 552).
Maybe you did it unwittingly, but asking why anyone should see info without an FOIA is an express statement that you think the government should control the information shared by the media and by the people.
Unless the information is classified in some way or would violate a person's rights by public dissemination, there is no reason for our government to keep it under lock and key.
This is America, and that is one of the freedoms we get to have, whether people like it or not.