Superior wall drain

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The wall system, from the manufacturer, would not include any drainage components. Drainage components are "site specific". Therefore what is or is not included depends upon your contract with the builder.

I presume the work is question is the piping between the house and the outlet. With a foundation drain, there are basically two options for an outlet: a sump and pump, or "to daylight", which is what you now have (daylight is the better option).

The contractor needed to put in one or the other. His quote on the job may have included the sump option. At the site he found it simple enough to daylight the drain, routing it under the driveway (not yet paved?) While he perhaps should have cleared the extra with you, you now have a much superior system (on this board alone, compare the number of problems of those with sumps vs daylight drains).

In the overall scheme of the cost of the building, I dont imagine this is a huge amount (maybe 400+/- hundred?). You can decide whether its worth it to create a big rift over. If it helps with a resolution, ask him to credit you the hundred or so bucks that he saved by not putting in the sump, and make it clear to him that any more extras need to okay'd by you before doing them.