Module not showing readonly field to user who does not have permission to edit

I saw this issue on StackOverflow and thought it would be worth reporting. The issue is this - users who only have readonly permission set for a field does not seem to be seeing the field itself when viewing the entity.

This is the issue reported on StackOverflow

https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/288464/how-can-i-have-a-emplo...