In my experience, that happens regardless if the process of saying "we're down" is automatic or manual. I'm not sure I follow your logic here. People will ask

In my experience, that happens regardless if the process of saying "we're down" is automatic or manual. I'm not sure I follow your logic here. People will ask SREs "are we up yet?" more because the status page automatically show downtime rather than manual, or what are you saying?