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Everything he did in the days he ended up erasing caused sometimes subtle, and sometimes not so subtle (Swayze's character killing himself) affects to the people in his life. That, and he also sacrificed his own life to repair the damage done to the universe.
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Exactly. He erased the events of the film from existence. All that stuff we watched never happened. Apart from the last forty seconds where Donnie dies, literally nothing of consequence happens. And by "literally nothing of consequence", I mean there were
literally no consequences. All the consequences got erased.
From the point of view of everyone in that film, a piece of wreckage killed a teenager, and that was that.
And they're right.