No but maybe. I think it's purely down to not inflicting too much damage on civilians and building etc. There are other things he can do and without full knowledge of troop movements and concentrations it's hard to know what he is at.Seems to be a distinct lack of confidence and or coordination.
He can cause all sorts of problems. He's not knocked out water supplies, gas and etc That appears to have been done as part of step 1 in Iraq and the initial phases of that took over 20 days with Kurds working in the north. Very messed up Baghdad after that. Plenty of work for US companies UK complaining of not getting a fair share. Done that way I believe to help avoid civilian problems. The place just couldn't run any more.
Syria - there were also bombing what ever IS was called at the time and threw in some Turkmen for Assad - probably why the mig was shot down - any excuse taken. Another group of people that it could be argued shouldn't be there. Kurds have similar problems.