How interesting, you both have the same Category IDs for your crashes on slightly different ARM64 equipped Macs and different versions of macOS. Only EA know what the Cat IDs mean but hopefully this will help. I looked up the Metal references, could you check your OS isn't trying to launch the game using Rosetta? Click on the base game once, wherever you have that installed, usually Applications > EA Games, so it is selected then click on File > Get Info. Is the little box next to Open using Rosetta checked or unchecked?
I haven't checked it yet.
