User blog comment:Wikiwalker11291/Continuation of SAO - Beyond Alicization and Other Storylines/@comment-28251580-20160811141802

To touch on the point of Ben, that could most certainly happen. Kawahara has written more content than he should (see Aria in a Starless Night / Episode 2) earlier, too.

I'm on the same page as Gsimenas for Progressive, though it is still open whether he will follow the main storyline or will keep "pre-Kirisuna" as they are now. It's unknown, but I like Progressive the way it currently is.

I don't know how to apply spoiler tags on this wiki, but a simple sentence in the opening should be useful. I skimmed through the text to avoid too many spoilers (I basically know what will happen, but no need to dive into it excessively before I have read the novel).