Yeah, I'm thinking I'll go laminate this time around, and when it comes time to replace it, I imagine the options for Dekton will have increased by a lot, and hopefully the price will have come down.
That surface looks about as expensive as the manufactured quartz would be, based on the description of how it is made.
Laminate is certainly ok and durable, but as much as some ppl say they have great patterns today, all i saw at the local stores was junk. Nothing looked at all 'real' and most patterns were hideous, almost as if stores don't carry simple whites anymore for the sake of being trendy.
The plus with countertops is they can be replaced fairly easily with minor disruption to the rest of the room so if you decide in the future to get real stone or something else, switching out the melamine wouldn't be difficult and would only take a few hours for installation.
However, why spend money now and spend money again later?
Just buy what you prefer, now, once.
