To add to what OP wrote.
The new app is also missing the option to choose your own home screen. Now your forced to load the clutter fest of a home screen filled with info no one cares about. In my collection you cant hide all games that is not installed and is forced to have at least the first row showing. Why do I need to see games I dont currently want to play? And there are no sorting feature making it a chore to look through your collection.
You cant resize icon without resizing everything and even if you do resize the app doesnt remember this at next launch. So you have to resize every time you launch the app.
The default size for icon is too big and makes everything feel very cluttered. And this is one of the biggest issues with EA app. You took something that was bad in Origin and made it worse.
Theres also no friends list customization so you cant decide how to be notified about things, you cant detach the friends list if you want to have only that on visible and you minimize it.
Launching a game minimizes EA app and takes the friends list with it. So sending messages to players not in game just got a bit more annoying. Also games have issues launching with ea app and that includes new games like battlefield 2042. Very often you are just told that "an error on our end prevents the game to launch". Sometimes it works, sometimes you have to repair the game for it to work. Sometimes you have to reinstall EA app to make games work. In settings you no longer can decide whether to participate in EA's data mining.
So how you can take this mess out of beta and plan to force it upon players is the big question. In short you took something bad (Origin) and made something even worse (EA app). And then you are going to force players to go from bad to worse.
My EA anticheat was working fine on origin but now when using the EA Desktop App it says "Failure during update process" I swear Fifa is so badly optimized for pc i give up giving this stupid company my money
