Yeah, but i think with Bae, the whole point was that Rumpel wasn’t willing to do anything for Bae, back then. He wouldn’t give up his immortality and his power for Bae, but then now he would do that. I think that is the plot and the change and the arc that would make sense for me.
I don’t think that they showed that fake Hook or real Hook were friends with Rumpel. They just sort of said it in this episode. I don’t even think that a lot of the audience would even make the connection that they were trying to show here to when Rumpel let Bae fall through the portal.