How to remove the statusbar from the default wordpress editor?

This ended up working for me, uses the tinyMCE init filter to remove the ‘statusbar’ entirely.

/** Edit TinyMCE **/
function myformatTinyMCE($in) {
    $in['statusbar'] = false;

    return $in; 
}
add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'myformatTinyMCE' );

Even with CSS, I couldn’t find a way to definitely remove the path but keep the status bar – here’s the CSS option:

function my_theme_add_editor_styles(){
    ?>
        <style type="text/css">
            .mce-path   {display: none!important;}
        </style>
    <?php
}
add_action( 'admin_head', 'my_theme_add_editor_styles' );

EDIT

Changed the hook from init to admin_head as init would cause widgets to auto close when you would drag them to the sidebar – strange occurrence.