tardis - Why doesn't the Doctor go back to Gallifrey before the Time War?

According to How did Clara end up on Gallifrey?, it’s just the Time War that is time locked. So why does Eccelston's Doctor tell Rose:

My whole planet is gone. My people, my family, all gone. Don't you think I want to go back and save them?

Why hasn't he ever gone back to before the war?

All the other Doctors basically see Gallifrey as gone from them, and when you say the Doctor cannot go back on his own timeline, there will have been plenty of time periods he could go to; maybe to a time before they could regenerate, or maybe when Time Lords were using Tardises — as in "The Doctor's Wife" she says to Matt Smith:

I was already a museum piece when I stole you

Answer

One does not simply fly into Gallifrey.

In "The Day of the Doctor", when the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors arrived in the barn where the War Doctor was about to detonate the moment, this exchange happened:

TENTH DOCTOR: These events should be time-locked. We shouldn't even be here.

ELEVENTH DOCTOR: So something let us through.

MOMENT ROSE: You clever boys.

This dialoge indicates that Gallifrey is not normally reachable due to the timelock. In "Day of the Doctor" they were able to reach it due to the Moment doing something not explained (probably a timey-wimey thing) in order to let them through.

Now, AFTER the events of Day of The Doctor, Gallifrey simply is in another universe, unreachable for the Doctor (or anyone) so far. But it's my understanding, that in the past the time lock is still in place.

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