This is 100% a tool problem, and a problem we're actively working on for customers of ours that plan on having thousands of customized "views" for what they normally consider a "status page". Per-user functionality is one use case, but it can and will go deeper than that. If they could post an incident such that only you can see it, or such that only you are notified, they most certainly would.
I disagree that posting everything to be globally viewable is the right course of action, as this outage doesn't necessarily implicate fault on DO as a provider, but it also doesn't mean that you as an individual customer shouldn't have access to your specific view of a status page as it relates to exactly what infrastructure you live on.
You'd be surprised how prevalent this issue is, and how much inaction it creates on the provider end.