SHatter is the (spoiler)

well if your here hopefully you've read the book.

SHatter is indeed the person who unhinged time and caused the Defragmentation Collapse of the world.

so here is an explanation as to whats going on and how SHatter broke the world.

as was eluded to by the statement in the book "the defragmentation of the world." the world is indeed a simulation however its suffering from dueling forces trying to destroy it the actual break down of the code and the corruption of the world by whoever made the simulation in an attempt to kill SHatter and anyone her code may have corrupted.

what does this mean for future stories?

not much just that if SHatter dies reality ends...