Just so we’re clear the abuse consistently hurled in the fandom since day one has always been the SQ fandom doing most of the abuse, even to MRJ. CS fans did not like Neal, and I know CS fans bashed MRJ but I was not one of them. Most of the abuse hurled at MRJ came from all sides of the fandom, CS and SQ. However SQ fans have abused and harassed Colin, MRJ, JMO, Sean, Adam, Bridgette, Jane and many more including media journalists.
Please don’t compare CS fans to those awful Supercorp fans that are basically SQ fans that ditched OUAT and went to another fandom to do basically the same thing.
I completely support MRJ going to a con environment because it’s a great experience and there’s great money to be made.
As far as the show goes, I don’t see him ever returning. He’s dead, in 2 universes. Maybe Henry will dream about him or something but I would think they would be focusing on Henry’s relationships with his step father, his mother, and his grandpa cause those are the three characters staying.