No, they didn't. The events had a kind of echo effect on the people involved in them. Plus, it still told a story. He had to do those things to get to a place where he could keep the universe from collapsing on itself. Those things mattered because without them you couldn't have arrived at the end result. Plus, again, those events did have an effect on the people in them, even though they couldn't say why. That was actually an important plot point, and was demonstrated fairly well at the end of the film.
I'm not really trying to defend the movie that much. It had a lot of problems. But what you're mentioning isn't one of them.
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