Hahaha. Wishful thinking. They’re just Sitelinks.
They have nothing to do with the status of any web site and everything to do with Google’s search results and their users – the surfers conducting searches.
Webmasters would like to think that the occurrence of Sitelinks bestows a certain status upon their humble web site and that some how, in some way, they’re directly responsible.
Arrogance? Ignorance? Maybe a little of both. 😆