Some good news finally in this PIA of a year. My FLR(M) was approved. Whew! Got the email yesterday. It was a pleasant surprise as I was beginning to think I wouldn't see it before January at this point. Thank you for your help, advice and patience about my application questions (many of which were probably stupid and paranoid!).
For reference, my dates were:
Application: 17 July 2020
Invitation to use IDV app: 8 September 2020
Documents and photo submitted: 10 September 2020
Approval email: 8 December 2020
For those of you still waiting to hear, hang in there and fingers crossed you will hear good news soon!