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Also, Neal’s “crimes” are that he left Emma because he was afraid of his father finding him because his father is the dark one and abandoned him. He left Emma after being told he was bad for her and that he would keep her from her destiny. He didn’t know she was pregnant. He tried to leave her the money with the car. There is no proof of some huge age difference. They made Neal’s back story complicated and Emma is still in love with him and they have Henry which complicates it even more.
The villain’s crimes are much more cut and dry. They are murderers and rapists, killing children and their only family members, wives and husbands and parents, as well as the parents of the heroes, as well as the attempted murders of the heroes. And those things happened like a few months ago for some of these characters, maybe a year ago, not ten years ago like for Neal.
I think what Neal did was wrong and messed up and it would take a lot of talking for him and Emma to get back together. I wasn’t really there when he died, but there is no amount of talking that makes it make sense that Emma would date Hook or be friends with Regina.