PDF to AI - No. PDF to EPS to AI - Yes

Sorry if the topic is a bit confusing but here's what happened / what i did.
Needed to make some minor changes to an ad. Had a HDD failure so lost all working / original files.Anyway, got the print ready PDFof the ad from the publication. Opened it in AI and all the images pointed to links. Not good as the linked images weren't available any longer.
So, exported from Acrobat as an eps file. Then opened in AI. Images there but flattened. No hassle. Text and logos, editable. Great. Changes effected, mission accomplished.
So the question... why wouldn't AI open the images that were in the PDF?

if The creator of the PDF's you have been opening was Illustrator (with default save PDF options settings), Illustrator will always read the Illustrator Private Data while reading such PDF, hence when you have opening such PDF's it ask for missing link.
But if you import any PDF which is not created from illustrator or createed from illustrator with preserve illustrator editing capabilities off , Illustrator will always read the PDF data of such PDF's and will not show any missing link dialog.
please let me know if this helps.
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Picture of what I want to see:
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