YES...if.

If you can afford a digital scanner, get it.
There are fewer and fewer occasions to get traffic on plain analog radios, except in a few places (New York is still very "analog-friendly".

I find that a good general-purpose scanner is very, very handy, in many situations.
I carry a portable ham radio, which I use more as a scanner, when I travel to listen in to the air traffic when I'm stuck on the ground. You learn more from clearance delivery than you ever will from the gate agent.

I listen to the weather radio channels, I tune in news media, and of course, I like to listen to local fire departments.

Well worth it.