Sims 4 won’t launch on EA App (Mac M3) – tried everything

Hi, Im having serious trouble launching The Sims 4 on my Mac with the M3 chip. The EA app opens normally but when I click play, it looks like it's working but just goes back to the initial page in the EA app. 

Here's what I've done: 

• Cleared EA app cache 
• Reinstalled the app twice
• restarted my Mac multiple times
• Tried laughing both from the EA app and double clicking the game
• deleted the Sims 4 cache and local files (Like localthubmcache.package) 
• removed the entire mods folder 
• tried using Origin instead of EA app
• Checked game folder and everything seems to be there
• Looked for updates--theres no clear way to manually uptake the game
• contacted EA support but can't reply to the case anymore
• some users on TikTok say they had to wait for the game to update by itself

It's been days and im completely stuck. Ive spent hours trying to fix this.

Im using a MacBook with the apple M3 chip and MacOS sonoma. Has anyone found a solution? id be really grateful for any help or workaround. 

thanks in advance.