Yeah. Entries on the long list of reasons they were the bad guys. Being the good guys carries some burdens. Churchill made the RAF change bombing tactics shortly after Dresden. It didn’t sit well with him. I agree.
I think the message was sent, if you do to us, we’ll do unto you.
And there was a lot of motivation to make sure Germany was utterly destroyed to avoid a recurrence of the ‘stabbed in the back’ nonsense that brought Hitler to power in the first place.