infinite loading screen Season 25

I've been able to play the new Apex Legends Prodigy season up until the last couple of days (14/05/25) as of when this was written 

but now upon loading the game it is infinitely stuck on the opening art screen, searching for fixes online have lead to no success and I also realised that my r5apex.exe file is now missing all of a sudden

I have checked my antivirus to see if it was deleted but even then the game worked fine before

current Nvidia driver update is on 576.40 

I had no prior issues with apex on pc whatsoever but now all of a sudden I am unable to play on EA or Steam  

Can someone please look into the matter