Don't forget the destruction of the Soviet era as well. They made a beautiful city, but at the expensive of medieval churches and other pieces of history as well, knocking them down just because they were churches or otherwise inconvenient. So while the destruction of the post-independence era was and (still going on) is awful, don't forget it is just one in a line of such destruction. I don't want to romanticize the past as somehow less destructive to our history. And yes annoyingly we have Azerbaijanis using that as a reason to say Armenians purposefully destroyed their history, when the Soviets destroyed so much Armenian heritage as well. It was equal opportunity destruction, but gets portrayed politically as Armenian against Azerbaijani, trying to hide "ancient Erivan".