By way of a practical and recent example to illustrate the point, does anyone really feel that a muddy piece of churned up ground was preferable to this?
No more than the Staffordshire Hoard should have been left in its own muddy piece of churned up ground. Thankfully, the Hoard is now safe and not only giving the world a glimpse into the wonders of Anglo-Saxon craftsmanship but also filling in yet another gap in our understanding of that period.
We could apply the same argument to this discussion.