I cancelled the recall work for now and told them I would just pay for the troubleshooting on the power steering issue and would be trying to replace the EPS motor on my own first. Going to pick it back up this afternoon.
If that is unsuccessful, I'll leave the car with them for a few weeks for the recall work and the steering column replacement.
Does anyone know if I'll need a new column ECU (like this listing shows:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2013-SUBARU...0AAOSwgn5fQB7p ) or if just replacing the EPS motor alone will not cause any further issues?
Shot in the dark, since I guess power steering failure isn't a common failure here.