When your in home depot, take your car key to the sample. It’s basically a super thin sheet (more like painting) of wood over a particle board type product. If it scratches it looks like crap. Hardwood, (especially the hand scraped) may scratch, but it has a tendency to not show or stand out so much. The higher polished hardwoods look pretty bad when they are scratched, but those hand scraped floors have a way of just getting more character the more they’re used (IMHO)