Also, like i am all for Henry and Lucy’s mother fall in love again and their kiss doing something, i just don’t want them to fall in love again while not remembering that they fell in love the first time. Because they can now do all the complicated we split up and were apart for years and we have this kid and we parted badly real drama that they meant to do it just touched on, they could now do it. Their could be good depth there with interesting choices made and interesting reasons, so make the show about that, not oh they were cursed.
As to why they keep doing memory wipes, i think that the writers have somehow forgot that they should hide things from the audience, not from the characters. The moment we, the audience, know something, it needs to come out on the show. On screen. In Season 1 they had all of these weird cryptic moments where we didn’t know what was going on, like all the hints about who Red was or that weird scene where Rumpel was digging in the forest. There were tons of these things. Then in Season 3B when we meet Zelena we immediately know she is evil and we very quickly know who she is and yet the main characters interact with her like complete morons for half the season. That doesn’t work. It is like they have forgotten how to do mystery.