You weren't grilled harshly, you were asked to provide some basic information we generally ask of all story-identification requests. If you don't believe me, go through that tag and look at the comments on the questions.
While you painted a very vivid scene that proved to be enough to identify it, we get a lot of questions looking to identify a book, film, and so on, that lack basic information.
Such as when the querent read or saw the work. Sometimes, it's only a vague reference such as "recently" or "when I was in high school". We don't know what counts as "recently" and we sure don't know when the querent was in high school.
Other oft missed information include the nature of the work (was it animated?), or where it was encountered (different countries have different TV shows and different books).
This happens so often, that we've compiled a list of these points and even specific ones for anime, western comics, video games, and even fan fiction.
These lists are also meant to jog your memory and to encourage to include even the most minute of insignificant-seeming details, such as the colour of the cover. Even questions that provide a lot of details already, often get a link to one of those lists to help and encourage the querent.
So you weren't grilled harshly, you were asked the same thing we ask of most requests for identification.