Are driver ratings connected to a EA account?

Hello! I decided to make an account because I wanted to check something involving driver ratings and I have been playing the older F1 titles for comparison. 

So in the older games if you were playing on console you would automatically sign into codemaster's racenet servers, which would obviously give you access to multiplayer or any other online features like driver rating updates. now I assume EA has taken over this kind of concept and put their own spin on it by requiring you to input a email and make a EA account instead of it all being automated. 

A few months ago I bought WRC on sale, I decided to use a tempmail address cause I didn't really want to use my actual personal email for a game that at the end of the day requires me to have a account to play online. I didn't really care much for it and it got blocked and banned a hour later cause of that, which was no big deal since I wanted to play singleplayer anyways. I didn't care much for multiplayer or any external online features.

Fast forward to f1 25, I managed to pick up the game physically second hand so I didn't pay full price and I run into the same issue "your EA account is blocked yada yada" however with this season 2 update there's driver ratings!And in the older games you would have to go into your email through the online portion of the game to update the ratings (2021 did this) now I ask, are the driver ratings automatically applied on installation or do I have to have a EA account to update driver ratings? 

If it's the latter, that's ridiculous. I can't unlink the previous temp mail address because EA's whole thing about permanently linking a email to a Xbox account And I can't just simply switch it over to the current one I just made now today to fix this issue. The fact that a driver rating update is behind a account wall that, most people probably don't want to just simply throw their email at because knowing companies like EA they have data breaches all the time is unacceptable.

Any response to clear this up would be nice, thank you.