Design flooring as a parquet alternative - purchase recommendation, manufacturer

We have moved in the same direction as you for similar reasons (after all, we supposedly just have oak "luxury parquet" in our apartment....). We also ended up with wineo Purline. Have you taken a look at it?

What is the problem if a wooden floor has a few marks from use? I have always lived in apartments with floorboards or parquet and never found it disturbing when the floor had dents or scratches. On the contrary, it actually becomes interesting and doesn’t look like plastic. If it gets too bad, you can sand it down again or re-oil it and that's that. Now in the house we have a mix of parquet (oak farmhouse plank) in the living room and tiles in the rest of the house (because of underfloor heating and cleaning/maintenance effort). Although I must admit that originally I was against tiles in the hallway and bedrooms and wanted parquet there. My wife, the interior designer, and the craftsman persuaded me, and it turned out to be a very beautiful and realistic mahogany wood-look tile.

It's not just about nicks or stains (although I don't like the latter either), but there are chips coming off in certain spots. I don't think that's suitable for a mainly bare-footed family with a very small child.

But I also don't understand why the OP necessarily has to be convinced by other floors when this is explicitly asking for an opinion on a specific floor category.

What is the problem if a wooden floor has a few marks from use? I've always lived in apartments with floorboards or parquet and I never found it disturbing when the floor had dents or scratches. On the contrary, it actually becomes interesting and doesn't look like plastic. If it gets too bad, you can sand it down a bit or oil it again and that's that.

If it stays with scratches and dents, there isn't much against it. The problem with parquet is that the wear layer is often so thin (2-3mm) that even a dropped pair of scissors can go all the way through. Then you don’t have character scratches, but see the chipboard shining through.
Corresponding parquet with a thicker wear layer or even solid wood planks are accordingly much more expensive, not to mention special offers and B-stock, which, however, first have to be available in the desired decor and required quantity. Not everyone pays half of their house and land with equity.

But I also don't understand why the OP has to be convinced of other floors when an opinion on a specific floor class is explicitly asked for here.

If this floor class is, in my opinion, the worse choice, I don’t just say "don’t do it, it’s crap," but recommend what I consider a better alternative. That is good advice to me...

Nevertheless, the floor is so sensitive and soft that due to our very young children we would like to go for an alternative.

Wood wants to live. It is therefore also “valuable” with scratches.
But there are also harder woods. An inexpensive alternative would be bamboo parquet. Bamboo is not wood, it is a fiber and very hard.

Tiles are not an option due to the lack of "foot warmth"

No underfloor heating in the house? Carpet in the play area?

If you already reject contact, how about clothing or even putting things in the mouth?
No plastic toys, drinking bottle, cup, toothbrush, lunch box, ...?

I also think plastic on a surface is a completely different magnitude.
By the way, the design floor is also vulnerable, like parquet. Dents can probably be fixed.
Ultimately, it is up to the builder whether they see design flooring as “valuable.”

so I wanted to ask if there are also more “valuable” floors from other manufacturers?

but it chips off in certain places.

How do you manage that? I have had various parquet floors with different types of wood (maple, wenge, beech, oak) for ages, but I can only imagine chipping with the use of massive force, not in normal life.