Steam account linked to defunct account preventing access to owned games.

I just made this account trying to get my Mass Effect: Legendary Edition to run through steam. The app says "There's been an error" and "Try resetting your password and restarting your game". The problem with that is the account my Steam is connected to is long gone. Completely inaccessible. I made this account and tried to link it to my Steam but the old defunct account is still there. The AI running the support chat ran in circles and apparently isn't capable of either helping or connecting me to a real person. So I guess this post is just asking for a real employee of EA to talk to me and see if we can resolve this without me swearing a binding oath to never interact with this company again.