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The reason an automatic download shouldn't have status text and a progress bar is precisely that it is automatic -- it is not something that you asked for or are waiting for.
Whether you go away from the screen and come back to it should make no difference. If the download is manual it should have status text and a progress bar; if it is automatic it shouldn't.
It's possible that you would happen to visit the Updates screen while an app update is downloading automatically, and tap "Update" before the automatic download has finished. In that case it starts being something you are waiting for -- it falls under the "or (for a non-system update) installing" category in the spec. So in that case it should gain status text and a progress bar that is already partly-filled.