One could argue that removing the clothes and the overpaint is just as wrong. It bears as a good reminder of the puritan era, of its destructive tendencies, and we are in some way still part of that era. It can also be a good whataboutist example when people are shocked that Taliban destroy the faces of ancient statues. Let's not try to obscure the barbarity of our ways. People who are scared of an uncertain future, trying to conceal the past.