Loved the title. I was like "that's 10 bits too many for a flag!" Haha

Slightly reminds me of how we used to use TINYINT in MySQL to store boolean flags (which can store a range from -128 to 127 or 0-255 if unsigned).

I'm the kind of nerd who secretly wished to store many such bools in one integer and use the bitwise operators to query them, but restrained myself from ever doing this, since if I managed to sneak that through code review, the number of curses of my name would no doubt become so large (and so loud) over time that it would affect my employability.