Haha totally.

It’s mostly down to volume - the Hagia Sophia is 1700 years old and there are a total of two runic inscriptions (the five more that are claimed are so faint as to be indistinguishable from regular wear and so broadly aren’t recognized since… well they’re probably just wear). In the modern day sites see in a day crowds that some wouldnt have seen in a decade, and deal with daily vandalism as a result. The damage would be catastropic if left unchecked.

It doesn’t even need to be malicious acts like Mummy unwrapping parties either: Most sites already struggle to handle the entirely incidental damage that comes with large crowds. Machu Pichu’s terraces are collapsing from the foot traffic, Venice is full of trash and it’s streets are often impassible due to cruise ship crowds, Mount Everest is covered in poop, Maya Bay had to be closed for years to let the ecosystem recover, the Maldives coral reefs have suffered extensive damage from boat anchors being dropped on them, the list is exhausting.

People just cause damage even without doing it intentionally, so we have to do everything we can to keep that damage to a minimum lest sites be utterly obliterated.