Not disastrous for everyone. There are always some who come out better in any war, though not necessarily the ones who thought they might benefit, or the winners. Britain won in both World Wars but impoverished itself fighting on behalf of others and its empire dissolved afterwards.
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The problem with the Peloponnesian War was that it went on an unexpected 27 years and devastated the Greek world to little positive gain. The city-states afterwards went back to fighting each other in different alliances. Some cities (Syracuse) and individuals benefitted, others lost badly. Athens lost half its population and lost its empire. Sparta lost so many men that it could not replace them and began a slide into obscurity.
The winner was the outsider Macedonia which took advantage of weakness and division to establish dominance.
