Kitchen Worktop - Laminate or Quartz Dilemma

I'm going to have to have a new kitchen fitted soon. It’s quite a small kitchen with limited worktop space and I’m agonising over what type of worktop to choose. I’m going for pastel coloured doors and a white/light coloured worktop because of it being such a small space. I’d love quartz, but it’s a lot higher in cost than laminate.

If I chose laminate it would be a marble lookalike - Calacatta gloss - but I’m worried about whether or not the gloss effect wears well. Does it scratch? Is it easy to maintain? Does it dull? Is the extra cost of quartz worth the money?

I’d be grateful for any advice, based on your experiences about what works and looks good and what to avoid.