Currently, it's very difficult to manage task-level constraints and dependencies without heavy reliance on calculated fields, complex automations, and SuperAgents.The recalculating dependencies doesn't fix this timeline build problem.

Since ~1980s, standard project management methodology best practices have included specific ways to handle tasks that have active levers that can or cannot be turned at different parts of a project:

Without the ability to set these types of indicators on tasks, visibility into things like Critical Path dependencies is reduced. Also, this change would enable true capture of dependency rescheduling (or forecasting) and the impacts of delays, with high reporting accuracy. This should align well with the baseline Gantt features recently rolled out.

When a project plan has hundreds (or thousands) of line items across many teams in Enterprise projects (especially in tech), such visibility and accuracy are critical.