Why is "Black and White EmojiOne" disabled in latest versions of Creative Cloud Apps?

[rcraighead]

We use EmojiOne font in AI CC 2015 and outline the emoji characters for use in metal etching. 
When testing with AI CC 2019 or later we find the B&W version of the EmofiOne font is inaccessible and ONLY the color characters are available which are useless to us. We could jump through several hoops to convert them to B&W, but in a production environment this is not practical.

Why is there a "Fallback" font embedded in EmojiOne that is completely unavailable in the latest versions of Adobe Illustrator? B&W emojis are extremely useful in our market and I'm sure wer'e not alone. Adobe, if you're listening, please give us a B&W version of EmojiOne (since it's already available in your older software).

Edit: Here's a simple example of EmojiOne characters in AI CC 2020. The B&W images were outlined in AI CC 2015 and pasted into 2020. Adobe, just give us a "Black and White" option for this font.

[rcraighead · Accepted solution]

One year later:
It turns out converting the "EmojiOne Color OTF" font to TTF makes the emojis B&W. It also changes the Unicode#. BUT, the "alternate" glyph is the correct emoji! This is a relatively easy conversion using the new "quick glyph access" built into AI CC 2020:

[ercerc]

Holy moly, thank you so much! I've been going mad over this problem

[rcraighead]

It's interesting to note that Photoshop auto-converts EmojiOne Color characters to B/W when converted to Shapes. Why can't Illustrator do the same? Hmm… I guess they could if Adobe product teams collaborated a bit more.

https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/ot-svg-color-fonts.html