That is definitely a major flaw that the filmmakers didn't explore very well and is subsequently the film's main weakness.
They just assumed (or decided not to focus on) that changing the past would only have a minimal affect on a few minor aspect of the future? That's a major flaw when the name of your movie is THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT!
The theory of the butterfly effect is that the SLIGHTEST change in the past will have a MAJOR affect on the future. They didn't show this!
For instance, when he went back to stab his hands with the spikes, what about showing how several of the children were so deeply disturbed by it that they became mass murderers and killed their families and schoolmates. Or how the teacher was fired for having the spikes in the first place and then became a homeless bum.
The theory of the Butterfly Effect is that the changes would be so severe that by the time you arrived back at current time, nothing would be the same. Buildings would be different, people would be different, animals would be different, you'd have different friends, etc.
Why do they assume that only close friends would have changed?
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