I was disappointed with the lack of Civil War tie in at the end of Season 4

Was anybody else expecting that Corey was avenging Abel Grieves, thinking that he was a relative, that was killed in the first episode? I understand that is the pre-life to the whole religious con-man vibe of the family but felt as if they were setting something more up later with Corey finding out that the Gemstones were a cause of generational grief/pocerty