I think the more interesting/concerning aspect is:

EA have spent the past year or so rapidly disabling linux access for past Battlefield games (Allegedly 3 worked as of July but I vaguely remember that not being true anymore). EA have also been working to be bought out by some of the worst people on the planet.

And a common thing with acquisitions like that is some of that “why would they do that?” starts making sense. So… yeah.