Not every school uses the common app so the ‘are you applying for FA’ question is not there. Not every school uses the CSS and they aren’t giving a lot of need based FA, so they don’t care if your EFC is $20k or $80k - they aren’t giving you money.
Not every school cares about yield and some students have outside scholarships, so schools admit them and leave it up to the applicant if they can scrape together the funds.
I think they are truly need blind in admissions. And I think there are many more U of Big State and State U doing exactly what they claim to do, make admissions decisions separate from FA decisions.