Ever since time began it has been confusing for users who don't have the "Administer Content" (aka "Administer nodes") permission, because they don't see if saving a new node will publish it or not.
If the user doesn't have permission to change the publishing status, make them aware of what will happen when they click save.
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
I stumbled upon a related issue to this one.
Simple scenario: specific user role needs to be able to Publish/Unpublish one specific content type.
I don't understand why this cannot be added as permission which would solve this issue too.
Instead of giving this user role the whole "Administer content" permission with all the caveats which apply to all content types and/or setting $form['status']['#access'] = TRUE;
in the form_alter.