Game installed through steam. Stuck at “install in progress”

I had this problem for a while as well. I have the game on Steam and what I had to do was go into the Battlefield 2042's steamapps folder and delete "BF2042Trial" then launch via the "BF2042_launcher" in the same folder. Prior to this I had spent 4+ hours doing the usual troubleshooting leading to nothing and then this worked first try. I don't know if this will work for those with the game on Origin.