It was more confusing before because there were discussions of task-based status and project-based status all in this one thread. I split out the project ones into the other thread and left the task ones here.
I did think of splitting the project-based discussions into two separate topics, one for a “not started” option and one for a “cancelled” option, but it feels like those would really be part of the same enhancement. Maybe that topic should be something like “Add custom project status types like we have now for tasks”? Although one could also argue that the project status discussion is really like this other topic: Customization of Update Status options / Icons. What do you think?