We love to hear your feedback. Your suggestions and ideas are important to us. Our feedback forum is a great place to post your ideas and vote on others. Please share your detailed use case and how the proposed enhancements can increase value to your business. We do read all of your posts, but may not be able to respond to all comments.
More information on the status of submitted ideas can be found here
Application statuses can be configured to be in read-only mode which means users will still have visibility of the applications but not be able in or out of certain statuses.
https://knowledgeportal.pageuppeople.com/article/applicant-progress-board-list-view/#read-only-mode