My kitchen has engineered stone (Silestone). The seller told me that as long as I followed some basic precautions like not putting hot things directly on it, it would last for a long time without visible wear. Basically they sold it as extremely hard, the most durable material. The truth is that 10 years later, treating it very well, the edge is full of chips (some of them rather large) that for all I know appeared spontaneously, without hitting it with anything. In my previous home, a rented flat with a cheap granite countertop, it remained intact after around 10 years of much less careful usage (although, to be frank, it was ugly as hell... But there is aesthetically nice granite as well, I think).

I was already decided to not buy engineered stone again because it seems to basically be overhyped crap to scam uninformed people like me with. If apart from that it causes such health hazards... Good riddance if they ban it.