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Because in most cases it is heresy. Improper understanding to how BoD was speculated on by theologians is important. For example. St Alphonsus with BoD did not deny water baptism, nor belief in the incarnation or the Holy Trinity.

When talking to BoD people, if you push for their beliefs they will either refuse to tell you if Jєωs, muslims, pagans or others who hate Christ can be saved outside the Church, or they will make some kind of exception for them which results in a denial of EENS or a denial in the dogma from Trent. Or a denial in explicit belief in Christ and the Holy Trinity...

Yes the dimonds are wrong to automatically call BoDers heretics (due to the nuanced example of St Alphonsus etc) however most of them are at least material heretics. BoB also has no ambiguous exceptions (like Trent has desire in justification (note not salvation)), this is a problem, because BoD and BoB are often conflated together. I.e the heresy of "three baptisms".....

No, I don't agree, at all, and this is exactly what I'm talking about.  Can't even have a discussion with these feeyney people, everyone on earth but the 300 feeneyites are heretics according to them.  They also have 0 priests, 0 bishops, and their founder was excommunicated.  Funnily enough Fr Feeney sought reconciliation from Paul VI.  I shouldn't laugh about this, but its hard not to.

No, I don't agree, at all, and this is exactly what I'm talking about.  Can't even have a discussion with these feeyney people, everyone on earth but the 300 feeneyites are heretics according to them.  They also have 0 priests, 0 bishops, and their founder was excommunicated.  Funnily enough Fr Feeney sought reconciliation from Paul VI.  I shouldn't laugh about this, but its hard not to.

He just finished telling you that most Feeneyites don't consider people who believe in BoD (in the sense that St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Robert Bellarmine, and St. Alphonsus taught it) to be heretics.  We just think they're wrong.  What part of his response didn't you understand where you now restate the assertion that "these feeney people" believe that all those who believe in BoD are heretics?  Father Feeney himself never said that, nor do most of the people who can be called "Feeneyites".  That attitude is peculiar to the "Dimondite" variation of Feeneyism, and many / most of us think they're wrong about that.

Where the problem comes in is where this notion of BoD was extended to beyond Catechumens and then ultimately beyond those who meet the criteria for having the Catholic faith and lost any reference to the Sacrament of Baptism.  St. Robert Bellarmine believed that it only applied to actual Catechumens, for instance, because he was a staunch believer in the essential visibility of the Church.  Others at least required Catholic faith.  Then it got extended to anyone who believes in God.  Jorge has now tried to expand it to include even atheists.

In actual practice, only a very few proponents of BoD don't extend it beyond the case of Catechumens who have an explicit intention to be baptized, or even of those who at least have the Catholic faith, and the vast majority articulate a view of BoD that has no real reference to the Sacrament of Baptism, resulting in the notion that people can be saved without the Sacraments, and also where people effectively save themselves ex opere operantis.  There's also a hidden Pelagianism which implies that unless someone actively commits a sin against the faith they can be saved.