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Bolivar
Zemus isn't the only one though, and Necron is a brief "FF-throwback" at the end.
Most FF main-villains remain unseen until the end of the game, but they are directly controlling all the events that take place throughout the course of the game. Chaos, Ultimecia, Xande and Sephiroth also fall under this category, I would put Yu Yevon in there also, as he is the actual villain, the rest are to tie up the loose ends of the story. To me that's just the style FF assumes in many cases, so I wouldn't call Zemus the worst for that reason.
If you are talking about final bosses, i agree with you. But most of the final bosses aren't necessarily the main villains. And many main-villains appear during the entire game. Some of them appear in person, others use the body of someone/something else to interact with you, but they are there, causing trouble.
Zemus is the entire game in the moon, and his "minions" are the guys causing trouble. All because of him, of course. But he did nothing directly, he just give the "orders". I don't like these type of villains, not only in FF but in any work of fiction.