every single analysis of this game as a meditation on the idea of "you don't know you're in the good old days until they're over" falls apart when you consider that not only can you go back to the past at any time but that there's a lot of capital-c Content you can ONLY access by travelling back in time and/or in the chapter xv postgame. it's such a glaring hole in the idea that there was any intent whatsoever in that reading that i'm shocked you're the only other person i've seen bring it up besides me lol