As you get closer to launch (console)?

This is false. Not sure if intentional or not but please do not answer questions like this with such confidence unless you are certain. We haven't even decided which consoles we want to expand to yet.

There is no new information on the status of a potential console port. We still want to do it and I think it's looking good right now but we are just fully focused on 1.0

We have much much smarter people than me working on those elements so I can't give you a first hand answer there.

However, I do spend a little time dealing with data storage and regardless of where the game is being played, we would still store all those saves in the same place. So from a technical point, I think cross-progression would be much easier to do than cross-play.

That doesn't mean it will happen, just that it's easier. I feel like that's kind of a nothing answer though.

I think the decision to have cross-progression or not will probably come down to a design decision. If the hypothetical console port doesn't have some sort of gameplay difference from the PC version, I think I'd be cautiously optimistic for it. Just like if you look at D3, the console version has a combat roll and PC doesn't.

Now, we already have controller support so the PC to console difference likely won't be that much if anything for us.

So I think it's going to come down to design decision with a possible console curve ball that might make the decision for us.