Using *entire screen* for buffer lines

My eventual goal here is to use every single line of the screen for
lines of the active buffer; I've mostly acheived this, but the final
sticking point is that there seems to be no way to hide/disable the
last line of the screen (the "command line" or "status line".)

Can anyone think of a hack to acheive this (i.e. using the last line
of the screen to display a further line of buffer content, except when
one actually presses `:` to enter ex-mode),

… or, alternatively, is knowledgeable about how difficult it would be
to patch vim itself to provide this option? How "deep" does the
assumption that the last line cannot hold buffer content go in the
codebase?

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