Is it just me or is the entire 2nd half of the story completely unnecessary?

The story was really great right up until they introduced the time travel BS. We had 2 great characters helping each other overcome their past traumas, while falling in love and eventually getting married, wrapping up the story quite nicely. Then for absolutely no reason at all we get a worse version of the same story with versions of the characters that are less likeable and far less compelling

Also the reason for there being two time travel orbs was stupid, you’d think given that there’s two of them and they’re different colours that you’d need both to time travel properly and not die or create an unstable timeline, but nope it’s simply a backup system so that time gets reset whenever one breaks

Lastly the whole original timeline thing felt pointless because it’s basically the same story as the first half except they have all these extra memories from other timelines now. I honestly think I would have preferred a Jumanji/Zathura style ending where it resets to the moment Oscar picks up the box with the Blue Orb and stops himself from going back in time in the first place, because at least then it’s not rehashing the same story again

In short amazing first half, massively disappointing second half