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The leaks in question are on the service module of the Starliner spacecraft. This is a separate part of the spacecraft that is jettisoned before the main spacecraft reenters the atmosphere. Therefore, the service module, where all the leaks are that they want to understand better, would burn up in the atmosphere, and be destroyed.

I get wanting more data, but I don’t understand how it would be lost.

If the craft burns up on re-entry due to many possible factors (Angle of descent, speed of descent, uncontrollable trajectory, etc, etc) any evidence of faulty components would be 'disappeared'.

Not everything in a spacecraft is instrumented. They're poking around to figure out what went wrong before they lose the chance. Space is hard and sometimes things don't work. More information is good, especially when you get it basically for free.

This story is incredibly sensationalized because it's fashionable and gets clicks right now to spam anything even slightly negative about Boeing.

They want more telemetry events before telemetry events stop due to reentry

It’s in outer space, so no way to store the data in real-time in the cloud.

/s

Just download it /s

Beam me down, scotty!