I'd take wooden/laminate floor over carpeting any day:
- it can be soundproofed,
- it can be floor-heated (but generally isn't that cold to begin with),
- maintenance and cleaning is really easy,
- potentially damaged areas can be fixed/replaced relatively easily (but greatly varies with the system and the mounting used),
- extremely pet-(hair-)friendly,
- very robot vacuum friendly,
- generally doesn't get affected that much with "clashes with my new x" issues (but that's individual, I guess),
- can be tastefully decorated and accented with smaller rugs,
- probably some other things I missed.
Basically, in my view, sans the "fluffy" feeling on one's feet, wall-to-wall carpeting is a nightmare, especially given the US prevalence of combining an inside carpet with outside shoes, which is in stark contract with majority of the rest of the world.
- it can be soundproofed, - it can be floor-heated (but generally isn't that cold to begin with), - maintenance and cleaning is really easy, - potentially damaged areas can be fixed/replaced relatively easily (but greatly varies with the system and the mounting used), - extremely pet-(hair-)friendly, - very robot vacuum friendly, - generally doesn't get affected that much with "clashes with my new x" issues (but that's individual, I guess), - can be tastefully decorated and accented with smaller rugs, - probably some other things I missed.
Basically, in my view, sans the "fluffy" feeling on one's feet, wall-to-wall carpeting is a nightmare, especially given the US prevalence of combining an inside carpet with outside shoes, which is in stark contract with majority of the rest of the world.