There is a need to implement cross-play and cross-progression because there are many players who have friends on other platforms apart from the fact that the games are almost always full of bots and there are also those who want to play the game on different platforms like me, I started playing on Xbox but now I have my PC and I can’t have my progress.
This has ben mentioned before, but not implemented.
Console version has a really inflated market with huge prices compared to PC.
Mobile is different, but I’ve never played it or console so IDK.
Many players have the same issue you have, and no one has done anything about it yet.
I suspect that there will never be cross-platform between consoles and pcs. I haven’t used consoles since the Colecovision back in the early 1980’s, but PC players would have a substantial advantage in that you have more control/command buttons than consoles do; this would invariably lead to console players shrieking that “pc users control options should be nerfed” or something to that effect. It’s the same thing with the “World of” games; the mobile players don’t interact with the PC players.