We want everyone to use the tool that’s best for them. Obviously, we hope that tool is OmniFocus, but if another app fits you better, we don’t want to try to trick you into staying here.
I’m disappointed to hear you feel ignored. If you could hang out by our coffee machine for a few days, you would know we have not ignored this conversation. But as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, the app is already very useful for many people.
There isn’t enough time to do this right (and still meet our June ship date), so we’ll ship with the status circles on the right. Then, when we have breathing room to design well, we intend to go back and think about how to allow one person to have their status circles on the left, someone else to have their single row layout, and the people who are already happy to keep the layout we’ve already crafted.