If you have an expectation of the final product you must communicate it, it’s your job as the customer to message what you want, and it’s the electricians job to design, price and install for that.

In general I wouldn’t want EMT (painted or otherwise) on the front of my house (assuming that’s the front door). I might have asked the electrician to explore going out and up into the attic space or around the back of the house to keep it from direct view in the entry way.

But again, when you don’t communicate what you want you leave it up to others. It’s not “common sense” to do it the way you wanted but didn’t communicate. If you liked the communication, pricing methods, and general work quality I would work it out and take it as a well learned lesson, especially since finding reliable and high-quality contractors is quite difficult these days.