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I don't think I would count Cora as justified. She wasn't "forced" to give up Rumple - she made the choice without any involvement from anyone else besides a little bit of poking from the king, but she could have killed him.

Cruella was also non-sympathetic, though the QoD weren't very good main antagonists. The Black Fairy is shaping up to be non-sympathetic. And the Evil Queen, while she has the same backstory as Regina, is still less sympathetic since she has the chance to be loved and ignores it. (She is inherently more evil so she has less of a choice, but still.)

Rumplestiltskin was also stated to be the big bad of Season 4B by the writers, and he certainly played that role more than Isaac or the Queens.