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There's no evidence for Bran changing the past, because everything he's affected in the past has already happened. Bran's actions with Hodor in The Door was simply fulfilling his role in a timeloop. Hodor's cognitive skills were always going to be ruined by Bran warging him from the past. He was always going to become 'Hodor', tragic as that is!

My point about the Three-eyed Raven is that he KNEW Bran was going to go greenseeing by himself, so he made no concerted effort to deter him from it. The Raven could have warned Bran that the Night King was also a greenseer, and by greenseeing without supervision, Bran would be accosted by the Night King via greensight. There is no way the Three-eyed Raven didn't know any of this, but he allowed it to happen anyway! If he had warned Bran, he would NEVER have been contacted the Night King. He would never have warged Hodor in the past. They would have stayed TRAPPED in that cave permanently. And Hodor's trauma in the past would have been for nothing! And that's slightly more tragic than his sacrifice having meaning.

Contacting the Night King was a complete accident as far as Bran was concerned. But for the Three-eyed Raven, who could see the future, this accident was literally set-up and waiting to happen!