I have always loved that movie, but I like how today's critics are finding anything to talk about. That's not how things were written back then and we can't just go back and re-envision things that did not exist in that time frame...

This article makes no sense. If the time ship was destroyed, everything that the time ship did would have been reset. That's not lazy writing that's great hypotheses, unless the ship had somebody like Guinan or someone who could perceive changes in the timeline... if not, nobody should ...