Why doesn’t a contact’s status or their company’s status carry over to the list field in a deal when you link them?

The list field on a deal is unique, so each deal can be tracked separately. If linked contacts brought all their statuses, it would be hard to see the deal’s real progress. Contact statuses track them in the pipeline of the lists they’re assigned to, and the same goes for companies and deals. Keeping them separate also makes reporting clearer and more accurate