If one could make out the small details from that distance, it would be worth developing FTL travel. That’s probably optimistic though, for at least two reasons. ;’) We s ee what the stars were doing years (generally many, many years) after the events happen, but are unaware of what is going on there right now. Same goes for Earth — what’s happening now is what’s happening now.
From at least one philosophical perspective, time is meaningless, and not in the quantum mechanical sense.
My thought too Civ ... Looks like everything did happen at the same time ...!?