I did not read all replies, but I do always play offline and it's driving me nuts that the app will crash after maybe 60 minutes, and even worse need to show me 2 popups that takes a while to load. I chose to play offline so why should I worry if the app can't connect? Anyway, un less I click to many times while the app popups freeze my game (if so my game will crash), I can just ignore the notification and play offline for hours. Normally the game will work fine, sometimes not.
Few days ago we had a thunderstorm and I lost internet connection in general. I was convinced it was the thunderstorm that had caused some trouble, somewhere. At least my PC told me the connection was broken (not the app, it was already given up). Then by chance I opened to see if the EA app was still running in the task manager. It did, and when I closed it there, my internet connection returned, despite the thunder still rolling over my town. Freaky stuff, this app, telling me it has lost contact and then it turns out the loss was caused by the app probably trying too hard to reconnect...
I much prefer the old Origin. never had problems with it, and I never use the online features anyway.