REST API: Why do we need to set the status field to create a new branch?

[LucaNicosia]

I'm trying to manager netbox branches using the REST APIs, but when I try to create one (following the example here), I get the following error.

{
    "status": [
        "This field is required."
    ]
}

If I instead set this as the body of the request, the branch is created

{
    "name": "my-new-branch",
    "status": "new"
}

Since I can set the status, I can also do the following:

{
    "name": "my-new-branch",
    "status": "ready"
}

which doesn't make sense to me

My question is: there a reason why we would need to set the status to ready (or any other status except new) when creating a new branch? If not, wouldn't be better to force the status to be new when creating a new branch?