All of the features we create have a status (by default). But a feature might not always start with the same status. For example, some features don't need concept or design work and can skip that stage and go directly to development. It would be great to be able to set the status when creating the feature instead of having to reopen the feature once created to add this.
Really this should be the case for every aspect of the feature (assignee, status, watchers, tags,etc). It doesn't make sense that some of feature items can be edited upon creation and others cannot.