To echo what kidsquidBTW is saying. Origin was a viable option for some time, but there's no method of authenticating via Origin with the backend services no spun down.
I have no idea what changed between my deep dive and today - the app opened for a hot minute after starting the EAbackground service manually, but wasn't able to recreate the behavior after it crashed once.
2025-05 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5058405)
There are some very large megathreads about windows 11 updates that broke anticheat software but it's hard to tell if that's related to just the desktop app even launching.
