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think the hatch was a mgguffin????
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A MacGuffin by definition is a plot device which provides motivation, but is not actually important to the story.
The Swan station is only one of possibly eight or more different stations, and although they do raise the stakes and the motivations of the characters I don't think the Swan qualifies as a McGuffin.
It would, only if we were to find that there was no importance at all to a weird electromagnetic discharge that turns the sky white, crashes jet planes, hurls heavy steel hatches through the air, smashes up cutlery, washing machines and stuff, and gives (or as is speculated)
enhances Desmond's pre-existing future visions.
Also its effects were important enough to require a team of men to enter a safe code in a computer every 108 minutes (which I believe was real, actual, important work and not a mind game).
I tend to think that the hatch was actually imperative to the overall plot, and that it was the catalyst for a number of changes already in motion. In fact, now that it is destroyed, its effects are still resonating through the characters in their actions and motivations. The producers have stated that the hatch implosion has had an as-yet unseen effect on the Island and possibly on a global scale.
Sounds pretty integral to the plot in my book.