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Partially. Don‘t have one: customers complain. Have one, but with lies: customers complain. Have one that shows the truth: legal department complains.

I hope you appreciate that that breakdown also doesn't answer the question of why bothering to have them at all? ;P

I know youre joking, but he did, because "customers complain, but legal department doesnt"

Because it's very profitable to be able to say that you have 5 nines (99.999%) uptime, over your competition with 4 nines or less.

For the afterwards part, I assume

>So it‘s „better“ to update your status page afterwards when your legal team is all on board

Because somebody (customer) wants to monitor a status page

But that purpose was explicitly undermined by the status page not providing the actual status!