god the EA app sucks so bad. the whole thing with making it so you can't load games straight out of steam, and if you load Origin like you used to for many years, it forces you to download the ea app and then the install of the EA app uninstalls and deletes origin from your computer without a way to opt-out, all was terrible. but in practice not just the stuff around it, not just it pushing microtransactions, not just how it inserts itself in between you and software you've already purchased before the app ever existed.
but the app itself is a nonfunctional piece of software! you can run one game from it one time per time you turn on your computer; if you try and run that game again, or another game, or even use the EA app at all, the app crashes without notice or recourse, without ever even initiating the game. so you are forced to restart the hardware of the computer in order to use the program, once each time, and it's not even a guarantee it'll work then!