It's got good time travel insofar as it isn't INconsistent and doesn't contradict its own timelines. But it's still full of illogical and arbitrary rules about timelines and how they interact. For example, why does the universe give a fuck whether some rando lives or dies, or if a clock breaks? Why is that "invariant" in closely related timelines, despite enormously different circumstances of death, and something "unimportant" like who eats a specific burger isn't? Never explained, inexplicably.
Sure, they may not have an ‘explanation’ for that, but every story has its own conflicts to work with. That’s what makes a compelling story in the first place.
Say, in Naruto, despite the hax powers, we have chakra which works in a certain way and in not some other way. There are some people who can control it and there are some who can’t. There are people who can control it in a certain way, and there are people who can control in some other way. It’s not explained and there’s no need for it to be explained because their world is just Like That and we know it. Same thing with My Hero Academia, as to why people get certain type of quirks and why some people don’t.
A more known example: Harry Potter (because Naruto is not very good at consistencies). In this world, some people are witches and wizards. Some are human. There is no known explanation for it (in the books, that is. the other supplementary material does not exist to me.) How magic came to be, how wizards are different from non-magic folks, how non-magic folks end up having magical children in the first place… It’s not explained - the 'science’ is not explained. It’s a fundamental fact that these things Exist and these things Happen, and this is how the foundation for the worldbuilding is made.
In a similar way, Steins;Gate sets its major rule for its own story and worldbuilding, that being the fact that there are certain points fixed in certain timelines that are consistent through and through, ranging from something small such as a watch not working to the imminent death of important people to the start of World War 3. There is no explanation to this rule and there isn’t any need for one because again, these things don’t need to be worked out completely - because most of the times that’s how fantasy/scifi stories work. Steins;Gate uses this rule to create conflict, a 'law’ that this series is built on, and stays true to this rule throughout the story.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be nice to receive a proper explanation, but it’s not something that leaves me utterly dissatisfied. Because again, this is a fictional story and we can’t necessarily connect everything to existing science.
That being said, we can always come up with our own theories too ^_^
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