The reason enumerations are better than free text is to so tools can handle them in a uniform way. This is a major problem that is keeping TAP from being very u

The reason enumerations are better than free text is to so tools can handle them in a uniform way. This is a major problem that is keeping TAP from being very useful. For example, if you get MISSING outputs from tests under CI, you know something is wrong with your CI configuration. If you get either kind of WIP output, you shouldn't publish (FSVO publish - some projects might require this for every commit, some only for commits on the main branch, some only on tags). It also makes it easier to diff test results meaningfully.