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Can confirm this workaround works for now. And no files need to be deleted or anything, just follow the README if you wanna do it yaself.

Now what can i get up to while most players are offline? lol
The Readme clearly says Epic users have to change files:

Epic Client

1. Delete or rename EDLaunch.exe (e.g. EDLaunch.exe.bak)

2. Copy and rename MinEdLauncher.Bootstrap.exe to EDLaunch.exe. This step is required because

Epic doesn't allow changing the game's startup application. If someone knows how to modify the

game's manifest file (EliteDangerous/.egstore/*.manifest), this could be avoided. Please open

a [new issue] if you can help with this. This also means any time the game updates or you verify

your game files, you'll have to replace EDLaunch.exe with MinEdLauncher.Bootstrap.exe.

3. Update your launch options to auto start your preferred product

1. Click Settings in the Epic Games Launcher

2. Scroll down to the Manage Games section and click Elite Dangerous

3. Check Additional Command Line Arguments

4. Set the value to /autorun /autoquit /edo

4. Launch your game as you normally would in Epic
 
MinEDLauncher is still capable of launching the game, so the game is not quite dead yet, only the frontier launcher, apparently.
Probably they tried to put a Panther Clipper on the launcher which crushed it to death.
 
The Readme clearly says Epic users have to change files:

Epic Client

1. Delete or rename EDLaunch.exe (e.g. EDLaunch.exe.bak)

2. Copy and rename MinEdLauncher.Bootstrap.exe to EDLaunch.exe. This step is required because

Epic doesn't allow changing the game's startup application. If someone knows how to modify the

game's manifest file (EliteDangerous/.egstore/*.manifest), this could be avoided. Please open

a [new issue] if you can help with this. This also means any time the game updates or you verify

your game files, you'll have to replace EDLaunch.exe with MinEdLauncher.Bootstrap.exe.

3. Update your launch options to auto start your preferred product

1. Click Settings in the Epic Games Launcher

2. Scroll down to the Manage Games section and click Elite Dangerous

3. Check Additional Command Line Arguments

4. Set the value to /autorun /autoquit /edo

4. Launch your game as you normally would in Epic
Even for the basic Windows launcher it's a nope:

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