Truthfully Will? I actually love this exposure and prefer it, imho it looks great! I don’t see that as dead space as it really adds a tremendous amount to the overall composition.
To answer your question: The AD’s don’t really tell an enormous amount of detail, in most cases. More information normally comes from the GA’s, as far as technical desires. The one thing that I have always been asked is, shoot it wide enough that we can decide where to place the text and always shoot larger than what you consider to be a finished crop. As they say “We need the space for our decisions”.