Oh, that rumor. Yeah, i didn’t believe that one.
There is no way i am going to like the end of this series at this point. No matter what happens. It will be really frustrating though for them to end the series with Emma and Hook in the bug. This is one of these moments where it only makes sense if it is Bae and makes no sense at all if it is Hook. You can totally see how Bae fits into the larger narrative and how him being there with Emma would be poetic and perfect.
The show may not have been good with Bae though either because the writers still are completely unable to write character moments and growth and they just write plot instead. Though, with Bae at least it would make sense that he was there, whereas there are so many situations where it makes no sense that Hook is there.