[ultima ratio]

"It is said that a large contingent, etc."

I note the passive voice. I note also Rome has been negotiating with SSPX's EUROPEAN leaders. Why would it do so, if it believed it to be sedevacantist? Sounds like more gossip. Anybody can say anything. It is not the official position of SSPX nor does it appear in any official document or publication. Why else had SSPV split off from SSPX in the first place?

Besides, you place a heavy emphasis on the business of reconciliation--as if it were sedevacantism alone that prevents this. But the issue is delicate and fraught with danger for the Society--and most members are right to be wary and to proceed cautiously. Rome still is inhabited by many modernists in power who seek to destroy Catholic tradition. Members need not be sedevacantists to urge caution.