YES again! Neal probably still thinks that Emma would never forgive him again. Ugh! The pain! The feels! The love Neal has for Emma is so great if he just wants Emma to be happy, even if it’s not with him!
That’s how you write endgame OTP angst, folks. 😉
In this new version of our world, where SB doesn’t exist (though the promo suggests otherwise and there IS some version of it?), the original Curse “never happened”, so in that new “reality”, the reason that Neal left her, no longer exists. Right? So even if Neal did go back to try and convince her now…what could he even tell her? There’s no way he could explain how he let her go because of the Curse and try to get her on side enough to forgive him and be willing to listen to him because he had a good reason for it…if that Curse isn’t even a thing any more.
They’ve torn SF up so comprehensively, it just makes me even more confident that they’ll eventually be reunited. Keep throwing outrageous obstacles in their way. The harder it is, the more rewarding it will be when they finally overcome.