When you say in harmony you mean like in the phone app or on the remote? I have never checked the phone app.
I use the regular Home remote to turn on an off lights and it doesn't display status of the lights at all (short press to turn on, press and hold to turn off). I'm not sure if the ultimate and its touch screen have the current status displayed.
If you mean in the phone app on the harmony I never really use it except for setup. If I was going to use my phone to control tv or lights I would just open up the Imperihome app and I have all my lights and TV in my custom configuration.
Ah, you're using the Home remote; that clears it up.
In our case, I mean both: the Harmony Ultimate remote and the phone app. We never use the phone app, but the behavior is the same as the Ultimate remote, it will display the status on the screen, and you use the touchscreen to turn devices on/off.
The problem with the Ultimate is that the status always goes back to being "off" (or at least the Harmony Hub and remote thinks its off) after a while. Because the Ultimate and the hub thinks the device is off, you have to double-press to get back into the proper state in order to turn off or dim lights.
It's hard to explain clearly, but basically, it's a confusing situation for users due to a combination of the above and a counter-intuitive UI in the Ultimate remote.