i don't trust companies anymore because every time there's a worldwide outage they use softspeak like "we're observing elevated amounts of errors for a small subset of users", hours after some CTO approves to change the status page

imho there's a big market gap for companies that are truly honest with customers instead of corporate gaslighting

I'm with you that a market gap for honesty exists - especially on status pages. Making a better product and being honest I'd class as very-very-hard.

I do think an independent service status monitor might be an easier stip-gap and could serve to improve honesty. It's not trivial.