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The Ikazkan butterfly effect = your Hatarait? Or was there something else?
As it is, we're already seeing the butterfly effect from Alex and Arandor. Without them, there would have been no isekai'd Sonata. Well, certainly not in that form. And without her, no style. Of course, if you dig even deeper, without Livia, Tsukiko, and Ayano there would have been no Tiarius, which is why the story went the way it did. And Man's sword is exactly the one Krag forged for Sonata. And his loot is from the coven. And without Alaria (and Carneol, the ancestor of Alsira and Kenshiro) there would have been no Aconia, which Man is so obsessed with.
You're putting too much on the players. If the players hadn't done all this, the NPCs would have. By and large, we never actually completed Ikazkan — Hatarait did his part. Had the Heroes player not resurrected him, someone else would have taken his place.
You've developed a distorted perception of events. When difficulties with completing Ikazkan surfaced, the GM simply sped things up, and formally the way out was found precisely by the players, without any involvement on Hatarait's part — he ended up with a separate story that had no direct bearing on them, and he left the dungeon not by finding the exit, but through a one-time item that essentially did nothing except remove him from the plot.