Yes. There are.
That doesn't make astronomy or simple stargazing unimportant. I spend a lot of time doing it myself.
But when your kid is lying in a dark hut with a swollen gut, and flies around his eyes, the river is drying up, and you wonder if the local warlord is ever going to let your husband come back, picking out constellations might be low on your list.
It takes a wealthy society to decide to change all the colors of a city full of streetlights just to make local astronomers happy. Someday I want everybody's worst problem to be having to go out in the country to see a comet.