[deathanatos]

They used to be. Github's is a prime example of how "useful info" has turned into "PR mouthpiece" — it used to display graphs of a few choice Github system metrics, and those spiking could often usefully indicate "yeah, they're having a problem" well before a human could update the page.

But yeah, also status pages seem to be under the domain of non-engineers who are too concerned with how things look, vs. conveying useful information in a timely manner, and ultimately, fail at both.