Hotels always ask to physically take my credit card, random maintenance guys ask to access my apartment without a heads-up from the landlord. It's seen as normal, but in my book it's a bit careless.
I've not had this done to me in Australia since late 90s early 00s. These days all it takes is a simple tap (or chip swipe) to put a temporary Hold[0] that's released on check-out (or next day).
In Asia, they quite often take your CC details and enter it into a text field in their own system in case they need to process it later, including the CVV. Sometimes they're writing it down on paper.
They're not entering it into a PCI compliant system where the digits are masked.