Has ESRI changed the Field Visibility property from Read Only yet. I need to make a script to turn off specific fields in a feature class and everything points to having to export to a new layer which defeats the purpose of why I need it. I found a post where they said they were going to resolve this issue that was dated 2013 so I am wondering if this has been updated or if there is any sort of workaround for this.
From the arcpy Field class, the available properties are still pretty much the same, but the FieldInfo properties have 'get' and 'set' for a field in a table
setVisible (index, visible) Set the visible flag of a field on the table.
There was a more recent thread related to this: Toggling Fields within a Feature Class On and Off and many older ones all pointing to a rather cumbersome method of doing this like: Turn fields off by script