I am getting the correct $status value from the form. However, the 'post_status' => $status is not being correctly passed from the filter acf/pre_post_save as shown in the function above. Regardless of the value of $status, it still saves the post as published. I’ve even left the post_status definition in the acf_form() declaration undefined and blank just to see.
The value of $status is not being applied correctly.
