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Addicting can be used as a participle adjective. You'd be hard-pressed to find a style guide that says otherwise.

Descriptivist pig!

I couldn't possibly argue with that.

In seriousness, though, "addicting" sounds worse to me. "Addictive" is more standard, wider-spread and more sonorous.

As a non-expert English speaker with 41 years or so of experience, I feel that "addicting" is just fine in this context.

But that's just my opinion.