Minecraft Legacy edition digital for players who purchased early versions

I've owned Minecraft digitally since PS3, upgraded on PS4 digitally when released. I had access to legacy before but as of recently all digital players are seen as new and no longer have access to legacy, if we owned the game since release why do we not have access to legacy digitally? Seems a little unfair the solution is go buy early copy's of the physical edition when I've been a supporter since day one and own every version of minecraft aside from Xbox one