From a company level initiative roadmap report it takes many clicks to check which of a set of child initiatives as the "red" status that had turned the parent initiative red (not automatically but manually maintained).
Adding the Status field for objects shown in the Contains section of a Detail view would make this much easier.
I like the idea, let's do it :)
Added screen shot to illustrate (and wondered why I couldn't do that when submitting the idea in the first place)