EA App Required Now?

So, what I feared did happen. My computer did a Windows update apparently and closed my Origin. When I tried to open it today, nothing would work. Got the EA app and of course it updated my Sims 4 which I did not want so now I have those buggy wants/fears and other bugs - lovely. It also will not download the Desert Lux kit that they gave away for free - click download on it and nothing happens.

Sims 2 is a huge mess - it shows Double Deluxe version, then when tried to download it - get a zip file and it tries to install the store edition which just fails anyway. Was really annoyed that I seemed to have completely lost my Sims 2 game, but then I tried to run it using the Sims 2 desktop shortcut and it was fine. Can't quite wrap my head around the Sims 2 mess though - very strange.

Sims 3 - as others have reported - the store content is all missing and I have a lot of it so really annoyed about that too.

Have many other games that I had on Origin too, like all the Dragon Age games, that I have not even tried to mess with yet - just hoping they work.

Really not happy about the change over at all as it seems we are losing a lot of gaming that we paid for and/or having to spend a lot of time trying to search for answers to make things work and trying to fix to get our games working again. I don't know why they did away with Origin - everything of mine was fine there.