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I've never had an issue with someone who held the limited view of BoD held by St. Robert or St. Thomas beyond a relatively friendly disagreement.

I've never had an issue with someone who held the limited view of BoD held by St. Robert or St. Thomas beyond a relatively friendly disagreement.

My issue is with those who extend "BoD" so much that it renders EENS utterly meaningless, and destroys Catholic ecclesiology.  I don't believe in BoD for the reasons I've articulated, that there's no Patristic support for its having been revealed, not argument I've ever seen that it's a necessary implication of other revealed truth ... nothing to suggest that it's anything other than pure speculation, which the Church has admittedly permitted.  I have problems with entry into the Kingdom of Heaven, however, without the Baptismal seal.  I'd be less opposed to a theory where individuals who receive BoD also received the Sacramental seal.  I'm open to a theory that those who die with BoD will be baptized at the Resurrection (similar to how the OT just likely were), or theories that angels administer the Sacrament to those dying with BoD.  But this notion of being able to enter the Beatific Vision without the seal seems squarely contrary to the Church Fathers and to everything that's known about this character of the Sacrament.  To me it's not so much about who is saved vs. who isn't ... but about HOW we can and cannot be saved.