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You know there is another explanation: time travel

As you said, all the events in the WishWorld happened in a few seconds after it was created in 6x10 If Smee and Hook used one of those portals they probably traveled back in time to the NEF. And that's how they saved Gothel

Time travel spell is hard to cast in EF, but maybe it's easy to do it in the WishWorld becuase the rules there are different (Robin didn't age, etc)