WOW! You take lots of nice pretty pictures. Thank you.
I bet they just loooved you, traipsing around the job site, being all nosy with your camera.
I noticed when they were digging the deep end, that there was a picture showing what looked like a grey pipe /w a somewhat small chip out of it.
Was that a pipe, or just a rock? What'd they do about?
You can put the liner in right over the top of wet poolcrete?
It doesn't sound like they did a rough-in coat 1st, followed up with a smooth, wetter finish coat. Sounds like either their troweling technique is bad, or the poolcrete was overworked. IE. Too dry, so they left lots of marks in it.
But I'm no expert, just what I see on here.