Well not really. I just mean important in terms of say local strategy. You could be pass alive with a certain amount eyes/liberties but key moves might help and ally and maybe collisions are necessary. But it could be risky if you’re close to the number of stones for elimination.
Adding a stone to a group could arguably be more useful than playing a move that doesn’t reduce eyespace or even threaten anything just to have one more stone on the board.
Also I imagine on bigger boards you could just aim to have one giant group with lots of liberties to outlast other players. I guess eye spaces are more stable short term in terms of capturing races but ultimately life and death is being decided by the number of stones on the board, not number of eyes.