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That's actually covered by him sifting through the millions of potential scenarios that could occur using the time stone before their battle. He must have seen several version of him using the time stone only to lose to Thanos. As powerful as the time stone is (and it is the one I favor out of all of them) it would be up against combined forces of 4 others stones. A theory would be time trapping him continuously but Thanos would eventually develop mastery of all 4 stones and forcibly break out of the cycle or subdue Strange and force him to relinquish the stone.
Marvel was really smart by throwing that scene in there. It covers all other scenarios and basically Strange is telling us there is only ONE path to victory...
Yeah, but when he did that they were already on Titan and it was already halfway through the movie. Plus, he said he went into the future 14 million times. Not the past. He could have used it right in the beginning when those ships first arrived in New York. After Banner fills him in on what's going on he could have reversed time by like 2-3 weeks and started assembling all of the Avengers. He could have also teleported himself to Thor's ship and warned him, or outright brought the entire ship to Earth. (Or if he had gone early enough, he could have helped Thor beat Hela, then brought the Asguardians to Earth, then gone back with Thor, Wanda, Hulk, etc and sprung a trap for Thanos there). All of the Avengers (prepped) could have taken a single stone Thanos. And with the Time Stone they could have had infinite tries to beat him when he only had one stone. Strange could have even taken Thor to make Stormbreaker, then brought him in to fight single stone Thanos with the rest of the team.
So there's no logic in him not using it prior to being on Titan. It just doesn't make sense. Doctor Strange could have single handedly kept Thanos from assembling the Infinity Gauntlet, all with the Time Stone.