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>There is not one story but three stories I see in here
Four, or at least the start of the fourth. Each chapter is a separate timeline. Each kicks off with the earlier Celestia receiving a slightly different warning. In each case, it's the only warning she gets, and later-Celestia only has three minutes, that once, to impart enough information to create a less dangerous end.
Unlike Glim-Glam's attempts, we're not watching future-pony, but experiencing each timeline as it happens from yesterday's totality of experiences that led to a new timeline.
Partly this is because the 'variant' created by discussion between the master of time and messing up, and the operator of the sundials, is that last-run's Celestia ceases to exist when that three minutes wears out. Next-Celestia can either choose to do nothing and accept this as the best timeline, or send herself a message that is different than the one she got, but in order to do that she still has to leave at the same time, and by the same amount.

>A horrible, sucky story that makes me want to rip my eyes out.
Well, keep in mind I did warn you all it would be awkward.
Also, chapter numbers? What are you talking about?

>mind numbingly against human nature
You have to consider that 2.2 and 2.3 are the same day, and it begins with Applejack already dead, and Twilight, and to a lesser extent Glim-Glam, know and are having to come to grips with this fact.
2.4 is one hundred and forty nine and a half years later. They've all had time to come to grips with the loss, and in fact others have probably died of old age by now too.

>when the timeloop kicked off in full
Again, chapters? I spend too much time in the third run because that's what I fap too, in essence. That's the run that there are lots of variations in each of dozens of runs. It can't happen until the knowledge of the second run is added early on, as part of the creation of the new timeline.
The human can't be given the 'limbless body in a jar' treatment either; there are protections against that the same as against outright murder.