The only thing I can think of at the moment is to update the 2 functions in the ext.publisher.php file. The save methods don’t get called if its ignored, so it shouldn’t be messing with statuses.

public function entry_submission_ready($meta, $data, $autosave)
    {
        if ( !isset($meta['channel_id']) || ee()->publisher_model->is_ignored_channel($meta['channel_id']))
        {
            return;
        }
        
        ee()->publisher_lib->is_new_entry = ($data['entry_id'] == 0) ? TRUE : FALSE;
    }

    /**
     * Before the entry is submitted and validation passed, see
     * if we need to delete anything instead of saving an entry.
     *
     * @param 
     * @return 
     */
    public function entry_submission_start($channel_id, $autosave)
    {
        if ( !isset($meta['channel_id']) || ee()->publisher_model->is_ignored_channel($channel_id))
        {
            return;
        }

        $redirect = FALSE;

Did you disable Publisher via its setting and see if it saves the correct status?

No worries. Does the channel have a status group assigned to it?

Arthur, I’m unable to replicate this. I made one of my channels ignored, made sure it has an Open and Closed status in its assigned status group, edited it as a member assigned as an Editor in Publisher, and it saved the entry with the Published status (which is just the display title for “open”).