is it a bug that git status show the in-progress 'edit' in an interactive rebase as 'done'?

If I do 'git rebase -i master' from a branch then set the action of the first two commits of a branch being rebased to 'edit' and exit the editor, an immediately subsequent 'git status' shows (for example):

git status
interactive rebase in progress; onto e79552d197
Last command done (1 command done):
   edit 71b73de914 message for first commit
Next commands to do (6 remaining commands):
   edit 3a478a7a08 message for second commit
   pick fab7159cf4 message for third commit
  (use "git rebase --edit-todo" to view and edit)
You are currently editing a commit while rebasing branch
'my_completion_updates' on 'e79552d197'.
  (use "git commit --amend" to amend the current commit)
  (use "git rebase --continue" once you are satisfied with your changes)

This seems wrong, because until git rebase --continue has been done the edit operation for the first commit is *ongoing* and it would be much clearer for the output of status to accurately say so.

The same applies to edit operations that don't happen to be the first.

Is this a bug or is there some reason it's like this that I'm not seeing?

Britton