Set Product Status on Publish

To make it easier for users to set statuses it would be super helpful if the status of a product version could be set when publishing - I am thinking along the lines of two per instance attributes, one to set the status of the new version and the second to change the status of the currently existing version(s).

So I want my new version status to be Pending review and the previous versions to be set to Omitted.

This will also help with the status filters in the loader which hide versions based on status, so if you want to make sure all previous versions are excluded when Omitted is set to be hidden, all versions have to have their statuses changed manually, which is very tedious :(