The contractor is often the only one standing in both rooms
A renovation request at a hotel arrives through a facilities or guest experience function. The question of whether the land under that amenity is still in its best use sits with a different team, the one that allocates capital, and that team is not in the room for a patio scope meeting. The two questions can both be live and never meet, not because anyone is careless but because the organization chart decides which questions get asked together. The contractor doing the physical work is the one party standing in both rooms at once.
The safe logic is to deliver the patio as scoped and stop; it risks nothing. Raising the larger question costs nothing but the asking and can only be declined, and not raising it guarantees the people with capital authority never hear it from the one party who noticed. So on any engagement that touches a client's real property, I ask whether the current use has been compared recently against its next best use, and if the honest answer is no, I name the larger question to whoever has the authority to hear it.