I’m not sure how well it classifies, but I find that my “overacheiver” and “just don’t fail me” are facets of the same thought. It’s probably an arrogance thing, but going from “this is good, I’m doing well, I’ve done this right” to “no, you haven’t” to “oh god oh god oh god i’m such a moron” etc etc is rather quicker and easier and (shudder) more intuitive than I would like. And it’s not like I’m a pilot or anything where that’s the appropriate response!
Too Cool for School got me through High School, but when I got to uni and failed miserably it made me question how and why I was there, and I got out after 18 months.
Ooops, shouldn’t have posted before reading the whole thing. Still, my arguement stands; what defines the “goodness” or “badness” of universe being destroyed and immediately replaced with another identical to it in all the most miniscule ways (the memories of agents interacting with the time machine), or for that matter the “betterness” of the previous universe.
Technically, this means “time travel” is less accurate that “history re-writer”, but to me, that doesn’t sound any worse.