I was really looking forward to the expansion, but no way am I getting it now. On my computer it just makes the game unplayable, and my fans start screaming, unless I kill the process(es) after I go in, which is just a PITA, so I don't play it now. I realize game piracy is a problem, but this is a truly evil piece of code that needs to be removed from the game or at least not run if the game is started via Steam. It is also completely redundant if you bought the game through Steam. It has a far far larger footprint than it should have for such a simple task. You can end up with 3 or 4 of them running and thashing your computer, but i'm not going to open up my computer to viruses and hacks because Firaxis can't get their ♥♥♥♥ together. I think because it conflicts with some blockers and firewalls. It seems to have a memory leak in it, and it seems to loop occasionally, resisting being shut down, and gobbling up more and more resources. Origin isn't the greatest piece of code to start with, and this QtWebEngineProcess runs away more often than not. As any programmer knows if you try and retrofit infrastructure to code after it is finished, it is a usually a complete disaster.
This is because they added Origin checking on licencing.