It was easier to scare the civilians with strategic bombing than it was to purposefully aim for targets. When it came to night raids, there was no real way of identifying an industrial plant, a school, or a farmhouse in the darkness, and the entire place was simply lit up. All bombing are inherently terrible. In Hamburg, the firestorms swept away 42,000 civilians. Old Koenigsberg was entirely destroyed. The British were undeniably silly in their belief of a Germany-wide collapse, as they did nothing of the sort during the Blitz. But what else in WWII wasn't centred on destruction?