When a user creates a new artifact, the "Status" dropdown list is set on "None" by default, which is not illogical, but once the user validates by clicking on "Submit" or "Submit and stay", the artifact is created with an incorrect "Empty" status, not the "None" status one could expect.
This may lead to an issue similar to the one reported in community #8966 (artifacts created by mail, with an incorrect "Empty" default status, not appearing in the Backlog column of a kanban).