@AnxiousPixie We have it and it was the best thing we did. There is always snobbery and derision on here.
It is all well and good saying plant a moss lawn and yes it would look beautiful but shit for any sort of foot traffic and useless for playing on. My grass lawn was trashed with 2 children playing football and it was sloped so they also rode ride on tractors down the lawn and completely wrecked it. I have a front garden plus a side garden all planted for us but the children needed a place to play. The decision came after we had an extension and all the building material pallets were put on the lawn so it needed landscaping.
Cons- it can get hot in summer, solution, wear something on your feet. Pros, you surface weed kill it 3-4 times a year, you sweep any bits off it (never hoovered it) and no mowing, ever. In fact it is lovely to hear lawn mowers and know you never have to do this to yours. Fox shit is cleaned off really easily, hose it. It dries very quickly after rain so the children can be out on it. No mud on shoes, no grass stains on clothes.
We used to have ants all over our grass so no one would sit down on it but those ants are now just in the mature planted borders. We have loads of wildlife in our garden, birds, hedgehogs, foxes and lots of insects. The grass isn't the only source of what they need. It isn't edge to edge lawn. I have 20 year old trees and shrubs. The other thing lots of birds do is sunbathe on the lawn. The first time I saw a blackbird with its wings spread out not moving I thought it was injured. No, just sunbathing. Lots of blackbirds do it, it is adorable.
Re choosing it, we went to a place that had very large samples laid out outside meaning you could take your shoes off and walk on it bare foot to get a feel for it. Hands aren't enough really, bare feet. We also brought back samples and laid them in our garden to see what they would look like. We went with a local company.