>>85982993If anything, shitloads of property damage take attention away from the characters fighting and their conflicts (both physical and mental). The scale of such damage also risks making the scene boring. Destroy one skyscraper, and it's notable. Destroy ten, and each successive destruction means less and less.
The original INDEPENDENCE DAY how to make this sort of scale meaningful by showing massive destruction once, then skipping over the rest of the alien assault around the world. We saw them basically nuke NYC and LA(?), why do we need to see them nuke Cairo, Paris, etc.? The film saved two other shows of massive destruction - the nuking of the mothership and the destruction of the ship over Area 51 - for the end, spacing it out from the initial alien attack so it would be more memorable, stick out in people's minds more. If ID4 had been a continuous showing of cities being blown to bits inbetween the main plot, nobody would've cared about seeing another city get laser-nuked after a while and the film would be worthless.
