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Or it's because we don't have time machines yet. It's like making a phone call when you have the only phone in existence.
Imagine creating the first functional time machine only to have a shitton of time travelling tourists appear in it the second you turn it on
Exactly. We can still only send a single gel banana back in time until we invent proper time machines.
My favorite depiction of time travel tech is Primer. Assuming you figure out the time travel part itself, I can imagine a time machine that can take you all the way back to the moment it was switched on. Any other mechanism has introduces way more issues that time travel alone.