Unfortunately I don't believe that is something you can modify in the Gantt view.

You can still do this depending on the format of those 2 custom forms. If the department is a single-select dropdown or radio buttons, you can group the issue report by that custom field instead of by project name. Same with requester, if it's a typeahead field, you can group by that custom field. I...

Is your org tracking time in WF? Of course that's the best metric for capturing time/effort, you could pull hours from all of the sponsorship-related projects. If not, then consider looking at # of projects per sponsorship I guess (which isn't great bc you could have 1 large project that takes more ...

This can easily be done. Are the fields you want to track on all of the various request/issue custom form(s) you're getting from the various groups so you can compare apples:apples? Even if not, you can work with native fields to show # of requests from the different groups MoM for example. You'll w...

If you have multiple approvers on a proof, it'll be pending until all approvers have made a decision. Approved with Changes counts as a decision, so perhaps you have remaining approvers that haven't made a decision.

Can you specify? A project itself isn't associated with a job role, so are you looking to see all roles associated with tasks in projects grouped by role then program?

With the new form designer, I think you're now able to copy fields with a form? You could copy a field that already has the display logic and then change field name... I haven't tried this feature yet, not sure if it copies logic.

@jon_chen , can you move the couple votes from here into this Idea?

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be an option to do this. Upvote this idea for it - https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/ability-to-add-columns-statuses-to-the-board-view-of-a-proejct-s/idi-p/687736 

If you're sure all things in WF are correct, have the user check their BROWSER settings they use WF in for language/locale.