Since <include/> is not a View type in android and visibility is the property of View, we can not access the visibility from included layout’s reference.
However if you are using kotlin with view binding, we can get the reference of root of the included layout like binding.supportLayout.root which probably will be one of the View (ConstraintLayout, RelativeLayout, LinearLayout etc.)
Now we have reference of view means we can play with their visibility like below code.
binding.supportLayout.root.visibility = View.GONE
Hope you got the idea.