It’s an interesting one, isn’t it?
Obviously don’t know a lot about the context but assume you have there a commercial beekeeper with large populous hives being fed pollen supplement to keep them booming despite heavy snow, presumably ready to come straight out of the blocks for their first task. If the supplement runs out they will stall.
As an amateur, I don’t particularly need to maintain artificially boosted colonies in the off season. I heft to check on stores, know we have locally available early pollen if they can collect it and beyond that can probably not usefully intervene much between October and March. But I don’t have any qualms about taking off crownboards to feed fondant if the alternative is likely starving, The gain is worth much more than the small downside. There is a big difference to me between simply opening or raising a hive and physically removing frames with clustered bees on.
As all mine are on OMFs, tipping up would not tell me much
but solid floors seem more standard in US.