Simple Seraphim like Castiel are capable of this. It makes sense the good guys rarely use it, we have enough episodes about how time travel has its consequences. But Lucifer doesn’t care about this. After Season 5, he could break the timeline thrice over if he wanted to, for giggles. Why doesn’t he?
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Because that’s not his goal. Lucifer is bound to certain rules and agreements with God. He knows he’s fated to lose his war against heaven and isn’t trying to actually win. He just wants to corrupt as many souls as possible to show God that humans will always choose the easiest path. And towards the end of the apocalypse Lucifer is just wanting it to be over. He’s tired of reigning in hell and never hearing God’s voice or seeing heaven. He just wants to either be erased from existence or for the conflict to finally end. Plus he’s aware of the other universes out there and is tired of it all. Changing the fate of one doesn’t change the fate of others, and angels exist outside of time so they’d see him changing the timeline and fix it themselves.
Honestly he doesn’t have the juice to do it.
Time travel needs a lot of power to do it. You need to be connected to the heavenly host to get the juice to do it.
Cas was only able to do it once after being cut off and it wiped him out completely to the point where he was practically comatose, and at that point he had been upgraded beyond stock Seraphim by Chuck when he got respawned. At that point you could arguably say that Cas was almost at archangel levels.
Luci also couldn’t really go back in time anyway. Because if he had aside from not having the total heaven juice in the network to do it by the later seasons if he did he’d land weakened and if he did he’d be in the past which would have two issues;
The first is that in the Supernatural universe time lines seems to be set, none of the times that they go to the past does it change the future (Mary still says yes to Yellow-eyes, the Phoenix still dies and Colt wasn’t there, etc).
The second is that as soon as he lands he’s going to be hit by the entire arsenal of the Heavenly Host. Mikey, Raph, a dozen legions. It’d be what they hit Amara with a dozen-fold over.