swtor security key

This kind of sucks. I blew $200 on the colletcor's edition, subscribed for a few months but stopped playing because of real life responsibilties. Recently build a new PC gaming rig and thought I would check it out again and spent hours figuring out how to remove my mobile security key since I had a new phone and the app was no longer linked . I was finally able to do it and wanted to relink the authenticator iOS app but found no option to do so on my account page. Thankfully I ran across this thread so I didn't waste anymore time. It sucks as an early adopter who was a subscriber I am not appreciated enought to be allowed to use a mobile security key authenticator. Sure I guess I could use the physical authenticators that came with the collector's edition, but who wants to have a bunch of physical authenticators for all the games they play. Any word on when the mobile authenticator will be made available for preferred status users? How about for those who bought the collector's edition?