Users don't have the knowledge required to understand the proper use and implications restoring the status of a resource, but the controller managing a resource does.

It would be very useful for the controller of a resource to be able to set some flag (annotation, label, etc) to indicate that the status for that resource should be restored.

Currently the only way to handle this is to either instruct users to restore particular resource types in the Restore CR. The only alternative from the controller standpoint is to duplicate status information in an annotation and apply it when an object is restored. This is cumbersome for controllers as they now need to keep duplicate information up to date in the actual status and in the annotation.