>>54595873We know the "time machine" is capable of doing things though, no one is saying it isn't. The question is whether that "thing" is time travel. And we have never once seen a case of someone actually travelling through time because of it. Not even just visibly, there's nothing in the lore or story that would specifically show something went back or forward in time.
A time travel story where not a single object or person is ever shown or even described to have actually in any way provably gone back in time. No marked objects, no person who went back X years and came back older or left behind a message. Nothing at all.