Help with .htaccess file being overwritten

I am hosting WordPress on my home server and while it works great, I have enabled the apache status page so It can be accessed by the Apache HTTP Server Metrics Telegraf plugin and visualize it with Grafana.

The issue is whenever something changes my .htaccess file, my apache status page stops working. I believe it’s due to the location of the code which is inserted between the BEGIN WordPress and END WordPress which it’s clearly labeled that it will be overwritten. I have tried adding the code elsewhere in the file but then the apache status page becomes inaccessible.

Here’s the .htaccess file in question (the line that controls apache status page is RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status:

### Custom - Hardening WordPress ###
<files wp-config.php>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

### Custom - Hardening WordPress ###
# Disable directory listing.

### Custom - Hardening WordPress ###
#Header set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" env=HTTPS

### Custom - Hardening WordPress ###
# Disable hotlink protection while allowing the sites below
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?mywebsite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?google.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?facebook.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?twitter.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [F]

# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between "BEGIN WordPress" and "END WordPress" are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Any ideas how to make this work?