The uprising and the violent reaction of the British forces resulted in the destruction of many of the historic buildings in the town, which never really recovered.
The historic buildings in the town never got back to the way they were.
Others may feel that the money would be better spent in paying the defense industry not to produce the latest round of high-tech weaponry, thus saving us the expense of generating still more lethal weapons when the current crop inevitably falls into the hands of our enemies.