Breakdown of Статус не менялся со вчерашнего вечера, и это меня немного раздражает.
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This is about aspect.
- менялся is imperfective
- изменился is perfective
In this sentence, the speaker is describing a state over a period of time: the status has not been changing / has remained unchanged since yesterday evening.
Russian often uses the imperfective when talking about:
- an ongoing situation
- repeated change
- the absence of change over a span of time
So:
- Статус не менялся со вчерашнего вечера = The status hasn’t changed since yesterday evening
- Статус не изменился would more naturally mean The status did not change or has not changed with more focus on a single completed result
Both can sometimes be possible in similar contexts, but не менялся fits especially well when emphasizing that throughout that whole time period, no change occurred.