For this to work, you need society as a whole to participate in enforcement.
But we have created an environment where this kind of thing is unthinkable, not even because people won't do it, but because they will only create legal trouble for themselves if they try. So the modus operandi for your average citizen in Western societies in general and US in particular is to not get involved and leave it all to law enforcement.
Not to mention the people who actively vilify anyone who "snitches" on the person by turning them in to suffer the consequences of their own actions. Luigi anyone?
I'd expect the hotel to already have a payment method on file, and possibly have pre-cleared a large charge to hedge against consumption or damage (with unused portion of the charge removed during checkout).
People who never experienced high-trust and customs societies cannot grasp why and how it works infinitely better than low-trust ones.
But granted, all it takes is a few determined bad faith actors to break high-trust, when they are not vehemently and swiftly rejected…