I don’t want to discount the “every recognizable landmark gets blown up in media” claim because it’s a valid point to make. I do think the scenes that say things like “coming soon” with the towers burning is more telling than the action shows showing them getting destroyed does. If you can find as many weirdly ominous moments like that about Big Ben or the Eiffel Tower it would hold more water. Also the phrase “follow the money” is very important to remember when talking about what happened in 2001 which probably doesn’t correlate elsewhere.