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If the Tower had not been destroyed but everything else stayed the same, would it really have impacted the story?
Yes, the plot would've been completely different. Basically everything that happens throughout Goseiger that's interesting is driven by the fact that the Goseiger can't easily get reinforcements from Gosei World and have to deal with things themselves.
I would go so far as to say that the finale episodes airing right now would be totally impossible if the Tower of Heaven hadn't been destroyed in the first episode. More Gosei Angels could arrive to stop Brajil instead of Brajil just steamrolling the only five Angels around.
GoseiKnight, instead of just being a Headder who gets a humanoid form, could be an Angel who ran past the time limit fighting and sealing away the YumaJuu and is thus left to wander Earth permanently.
Gosei Knight not being a Headder would cock up everything interesting the show did with him in the third arc, when the Matrintis appear. There are things you could do to improve Gosei Knight, but he really needs to be a Headder or a lot of Bladerun's behavior through the second and third arcs doesn't make any sense.
(I wonder if they originally intended to have an actor play Knight's alter ego, as he still retained the cell phone, but at the last minute they scrapped it.)
I suspect Gosei Knight was intended to be "just a Headder," but a special one who could take on a human form for interacting with the Goseigers. So then the actor could use the cell phone.
Someone during pre-production probably pointed out that Gosei Knight taking on human form made absolutely no sense for his characterization in the second arc and actively undermined the point of the third arc. So this aspect of him was removed even though the toys had been finalized, resulting in Gosei Knight's amazing nonsense stock footage.
And personally, I would have eliminated the cards. The whole idea of angels needing arcade cards to do things just doesn't seem right.
The cards are clearly just a token inclusion driven by Dice-Oh. If not for Dice-Oh, I'm sure the Goseigers would just have magical powers relating to their elements, probably executed in a fashion similar to Magiranger. The cards are used to speed up some things that would otherwise need to be exposited in the third arc, but otherwise never really have any function in the story.