If you ignore the concept of status you will end up one of: [...] Using the concept of status but not calling it by the name status. This includes 'just knowing what you should do because your instincts tell you'.

Bravo. It's possible to act in genuinely status-defying ways, but the vast majority of people who tell you they don't care about status are just not good enough at self-analysis to realize the effect it has on them.