Yea, as much as I would like a progression server - I think that would be great. I don't see it happening, I think the amount of work and time needed to get that done may be beyond what they're willing to do - considering the Steam release was apparently going to be launched as-is, without even having new servers.
I'm glad they're launching on Steam and I'm happy to be getting new servers, but I'm not expecting anything else beyond that.