I'm so surprised anyone is justifying seeing the plain, concrete Starcruiser building as you drive up to the hotel on the basis that you should just imagine it's something else. That's not how themed design traditionally works! People aren't morons, their first thought will be "oh, that's where we're staying for the next 2 nights."
Didn't Disney just pay a lot of money upgrading the entry experience to all of their theme parks? It seems weird this is the one project where they feel it's not worth it. I'm beginning to feel more and more that
@UNCgolf is right and Disney has more or less written off this project before it's even opened and thus cut as many corners as they could get away with to preemptively minimise their losses while still saying they gave it a shot.