I agree that there's no need to force things when the push is brand new.

I do think we want something a little "scary", like "unspecified stage", to encourage pushmasters to specify a stage. "Why won't pushmanager tell me what stage I'm on?" and/or the IRC'd query "What stage are we on??" is a very common request/problem, so I think we want to encourage everyone to set the stage name as soon as practicable.

But if you still disagree you can drop this issue.