I know exactly what happened here having just done a renovation on a basement with a completely fucked up bathroom.

They re-used the existing piping and lines when replacing the tub and shower surrounds.

They wanted to save a few hundred dollars and/or effort of moving the pipes to center up with the prefab tub/surround, and just figured they could drill the hole into the surround for the shower attachments wherever.

They’re correct, but that doesn’t make them right.

I mean, it could be worse? That’s definitely pretty obnoxious, though.

I don’t get it. What’s the problem?