This is a thing I’ve said before; the “Rules of the Road” (laws or customs) are there so that everyone behaves in a similar way, so that your actions/potential actions will be predictable to other road users around you.
Behaving in a contrarian manner, to call attention to yourself and therefore “make you safer” is a false concept, because now everyone has to stop paying attention to everything else around them and focus on you, so they can figure out what you’re doing or what you’re going to do.