Absolutely you bring it up and anything else that might be wrong. Why should you accept a counter that looks like crap in a brand new home that cost you 6 figures of your hard earned money?

Yes, bring it up. This stuff drives me nuts. It's terribly sloppy. They will probably have to be redone.

Send your photos to contractor asap, especially before you move in.

I don't know how they fix it, but they should if new build. I think it may have to be redone.

It looks like someone tried to fix it - so "someone" knows it's wrong...

"Should I bring this up with our contractor?"

Yes.

"Is there even anything that can be done?"

Yes, replacement. You may abrade away a light scratch on certain colors and textures of plastic laminate in certain light, but not here.

Plus you're a "100%er". This is new, it's not your screw-up and you are entitled to put your own scratches in.

Laminate will scratch, but certainly shouldn't spontaneously and before you move in. Bring it up with the builder/contractor. Someone screwed up and you shouldn't suffer the consequences.

Any horizontal surface is likely to be used by whatever trades are working at the time - could be to just set down a cup of coffee or as a landing place for a tool or worst case scenario as a work surface - so they should all be protected all the time. If they replace before you move in make sure the builder takes precautions to better protect them.

Is yours a tract house under construction, or a completely custom build? Regardless, time to have a nice friendly talk with your builder on-site, standing in front of the counters in question.

Same thing has gone on at my new build. Garbage just left all over. Spilled sodas. My back deck is basically used as a dump. We have composite decking back there. It's covered with plywood but with everything that has gone on back there I'm betting it will be scratched up. Someone did attempt to clean up and put stuff in a large garbage bag and left it outside on front porch. An animal came by and ripped it open and we returned to the house one day to find garbage all over. I think my cabinet guy just chucked the cabinets willy nilly into the back of his truck. They have scratches, gouges and dented corners. One cabinet front looks liked it was dragged over something sharp. Someone smashed a piece of wood into the tongue and groove wall siding because there was a big impact crack. At one point my tiled master shower was filled with tools, paint cans, buckets etc. I am petrified for when the wood floors get stained and poly'd. It amazes me too the disregard. I expected more from my builder.

we have a bunch of retaining walls around our site. Apparently, many folks seem to think that the "outside" of the retaining walls are some magic land that sorts / recycles and manages all trash. That can be the only explanation why people think it's find to chuck all their trash "over the wall". Um - I own that property too...

And yes - ANY horizontal surface is fair game. And any "final" surface has to be well protected during the build.

Make them redo it. It will drive you nuts forever if you don't. When I redid the (only) bathroom in my apartment, some idiot put a 1/2" gouge in the fiberglass tub after it was installed. They swore up and down that they could patch it so that I would never know where it was, and because I was so tired of the mess and showering at the gym, I let them patch it rather than replace the tub. It was still visible, but looked okay - for about a month. After that the patch began to degrade and it has been an eyesore ever since. Get it done right while you still have leverage!

Looks like someone used it as a work bench. You really have to abuse it for something like those scratches. A coffee cup or even placing tool on it (like a hammer or screwdriver) shouldn't of scratched it. My last house the laminate was 24 years old and did not have one scratch in it. It will scratch if you cut directly on it, but other wise it is a work horse. I wouldn't have anything else for counters. Get them to replace it. It shouldn't hurt the back splash to replace it. They have to remove the caulking between the back splash and the counter, put in the new counter and re-caulk.

I could relaminate your tops without changing the splash.

This is going to cost your builder, as it should. You will be the last customer of his that has a scratched top, I promise. That's how it should be.

New build scratches? Heck no. Demand remedy.

I've seen it all. So many food bags left at house being built across the street from our summer rental, that multiple skunks were regular nighttime visitors and got my dog one time, on a leash, and then chased me. When I had major remodeling done, first in 1985 and again 2000, I would watch the workmen arrive, finish their last cigarette, and then dump their ashtray, filled to the brim, on the gravel pull-off in front of our house. First GC made them pick them up, butt by butt; second said, "Oh it's just the boys being boys"! I made them pick them up, butt by butt.

When the first remodeling was going done, it was a full dormer on the back of the house. There was a finished bedroom on the 2nd floor with a bathroom with tub. I watched them use the tub as a dumping ground for their drywall work. When I pointed this out to the GC, she told the dry wall men (who also stole jewelry from me - followed their white footprints to my bedroom!) to clean it out thoroughly and not use it again. They took out the big stuff and rinsed the rest down the drain. I've had multiple plumbers out over the years, and we can't find the clog, but I know there is one as the tub drains VERY slowly. I'm not replacing the plumbing from the 2nd floor to the basement!

The list goes on and on and on.. I quickly came to the conclusion that most of the trades must live like swine as I'm sure they do the same thing at their own house. Pigs!

Just wanted to mention :

That is a good looking counter top material, but does it scratch more than usual due to its shine finish?

Hopefully those scratches are due to contractor heavy tools. If there going to replace it, go do a test of your own for possible everyday use scratching.

If that material scratches more easily than you want, then consider selecting a more scratch resistant material.

Is it a solid color?