That is exactly my point. Dresden was just a juicy target-- dropping a bunch of incendiaries on a city to make it burn, then catching a good chunk of available firefighters with a second wave is just the better bang for the buck than dropping explosives on heavy industry (which can always be repaired). Which is exactly why the city was targeted instead of its industry.
Dresden had ~600000 inhabitants and over >20000 deaths during the firebombing. Gaza City has a similar number of inhabitants, and there's been >20000 deaths in Gaza as of early December 2024. Thats very weak evidence.
My personal view is that "our wars are less harmful because we do precision strikes" is a somewhat selfdelusional justification that Bush junior used to sell the second Gulf war; a lot of people didn't really buy it then and history mostly proves them right.