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Great post, I feel similar. However, I feel that this was an A & E choice (technically they do have final say even if there's so network push). I deemed so after conventions held before season 4 and 5, I think and Eddy tends to ask "Who wants to see Regina?" then follows with "Who wants to see the Evil Queen?" I'm thinking they have a quite simple problem: they are actually succombing to what their villains alwasy want: They want everything!. Villains and anti-heroes are much more interesting than docile heroes.

I could see that Robin may have simply been a transitory item which I could believe as they surely treated Robin worst than Belle. I don't think they really wanted Regina to get a love interest and when they did so, everything was dumped when Frozen came along, and then Robin was pretty much background scenery.