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...
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