Affordable engineered parquet, is a 2.5mm wear layer sufficient?

Unfortunately, 2.5 mm can also be quickly penetrated or scratched off. We had such parquet in the last rental apartment, also in the kitchen. With a toddler and then a baby in crawling age, the parquet was so damaged in many places that you could see the substrate material. If the parquet is lacquered, it is less susceptible, but oiled oak is not that resistant that I would want to look at it for 15 years.

Unfortunately, 2.5 mm can also be quickly pierced through or scratched off.

What do you think about poplar as a substrate material at Tede and Witte?

Which alternative do you see regarding similar quality as Bauwerk but just a bit more wear layer and affordable?

I seriously wonder how that works with oak.

Doesn't matter at all.

Quality is relative. I only look at appearance. Even 25€ two-layer parquet has a comparable quality to the 125€ planks.

I thought poplar was just, apart from the ecological aspect, not as hard as spruce

I seriously wonder how that works with oak.