Ya, you pretty much got it.
It's not about 'extract a better quality ISO', but these productiopn DVDs are the closest we can get to an original source.
The MPEG-2 video files on the disc isn’t modern quality, but it preserves the native framerate, motion data, and compression the producers actually delivered. Many old rips were encoded at 30fps, even when the DVD was authored at 60i, which means half the motion detail was lost. With the untouched ISO, you can recover the original framerate and get the best possible result before doing any modern encoding or AI upscaling.
Even if the production quality wasn’t perfect, the ISO still gives you the cleanest starting point vs avi rips from decades ago. As AI restoration improves, having the original data will matter even more.