Are engineered wood floors any good in a kitchen

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We are in the process of getting a new kitchen. Both our dc will have moved out by the time it is fitted so we have spent a bit more than usual. We have an open plan sitting / kitchen area and it’s where dh and myself spend most time - so we want it to be special.
I would like a wooden look floor. Definitely not laminate. I have looked at real wood, engineered wood and amtico/ karndean options.
I am worried that real wood will mark a bit too much, and that although kardean / amtico floors are hard wearing , it will be obvious that it’s not real wood, and I will be dissatisfied.
Is there anyone who has chosen engineered wood for their kitchen who would comment on whether they love/ hate it

I have engineered wood in my kitchen, been down about fourteen years I had it re-sanded about five years ago & still looks lovely I like it as it’s much warmer underfoot & very easy to keep clean.

I'd planned to go for engineered wood for my kitchen/diner but I surprisingly went with waterproof laminate in the end - I was scared about dishwasher flooding potentially damaging an expensive wood floor (it's happened to me before, but luckily only on a tiled kitchen floor so maybe now I'm paranoid ). I'm sure engineered wood would have been fine with general spills though.

I looked at karndean, amtico and another brand of LVT since they are all waterproof too but personally although I thought they looked really good, they didn't feel as close to engineered wood when you actually touched them as the laminate did to me. I was really surprised as I never thought I would have laminate - a lot of the stuff I'd seen previously looked so fake/shiny. I'd happily go for the LVT if I wanted a stone effect though and use engineered wood in non "wet" areas.

I had it and loved it. Warm, easy to clean. I wiped up spills, swept/hoovered and steam cleaned it and sometimes got on hands and knees with a bucket of soapy water. Stayed clean. Stayed looking good - but was definitely "lived in". I liked the slightly scuffed look.

Good if you dropped stuff, not noisy, I'll do the same in the new house.

Don't get anything with a strong grain as it's a bugger to clean. Get something quite smooth if it is for an area which night get dirty eg dropped food or liquids.
I have to clean my kitchen on my hands and knees with a microfibre cloth, really rubbing it hard to get marks out of the textured grain. If it were smoother I could just hoover and mop with some wood cleaner.

Thanks for all the info everyone

We've just had it fitted in our kitchen, hall and dining room. It never occurred to me it wouldn't be suitable for a kitchen. It looks good and as others have said so far is easy to clean and warm. We put it over original floorboards which to me was quite strange as we've always kept and sanded out original floors but I've found them to be cold, look a bit tatty and hard to clean. So I'm really pleased with my choice.

Ps my dad has amtico in his house and it does look very similar. I'm not sure it's really an obvious difference unless you're looking.

We fitted solid wood in our last kitchen, a bit like parquet, it came in panels on a backing, you stick it down. Very hardwearing, and you can sand it again and again if you want to. First off I varnished it, with a supposedly tough hardwearing varnish, which was a mistake; it scratched. Oiling is the way to go, with good quality oil. Far easier to patch, dries quicker, and doesn't scratch as easily. I had to sand the varnish off, but once oiled it was great.
We have a sort of lino-made-to-look-like-wood here. It was clearly good quality, for what is really glorified lino, and had been well laid, but the surface is unpleasant compared to wood, and we're taking it up and putting solid wood down.

We were thinking long and hard about it and eventually went with LVT, honestly it looks absolutely first class, so easy to clean and mantain, nice on bare feet and very quiet. Fitting is half of the success IMO.