Ok, everyone needs to stop making such well reasoned arguments so I can make up my mind. 😆 😆 😆
I am totally conflicted on this. Regina did alter whatever she intended for Rumple with the “please” clause and gave him an estate. She also promised Jefferson she would write him and Grace a new story for them if Emma died after eating the apple.
But this is Rumple’s Curse. He engineered it knowing all about Emma and when she would arrive and what the final outcome would be.
**EDIT**
But is this Rumple’s Curse? He engineered it, added the stop valve. But the Curse was already in existence back when he lost Bae because the Blue Fairy (in)advertently led him to it. What if all Rumple did was add the True Love potion part of it? What if the Curse, pre-Rumple, had the Fail Safe already built in?