acc link am i losing progress

greetings 

recently i manage to handle " secure boot " outrageousness and wanted to play another game thru steam (an ea game i installed from steam) however when i try to enter asked ea account and forcing me to link my steam acc and ea acc which i don't want since i installed thru steam being online as steam user should be enough i think anyway 

as apex player i have over 2k hours time and achievements and store items etc etc on that ea acc also when i look at the lobby i can see the steam link button but idk why steam side doesn't recognize there is that..

here is the question: today if i link my steam account due to this push are there probability of losing my apex progress in the ea account ? ( which i am using it since origin time) 

thank you in advance, yours truly