I remodeled multiple kitchen's in the past years. I always went for the stainless steel as that was just the way to do. But independent of the high quality it always started not looking good after a while. With this one I am just completely happy a year later. No scratches at all. If you clean this with a bit of soap it looks the same as the day you bought it. And I think because it is different (no stainless steel) I am getting very often very positive comments about it.