Apex Legends stuck on loading screen after reinstall (Steam/PC)

Hello, after reinstalling Apex Legends on Steam, the game gets stuck on the red loading screen (the one showing “Confrontation”) and never proceeds to the main menu.

I already tried:

Verified and repaired game files
Cleared cache and reinstalled
Ran the game as administrator
Updated GPU drivers
Disabled overlays (Steam, Discord, etc.) and antivirus

The game still freezes on the same loading screen with no error message. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance.