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@Timmy2wheels
We have honed (less shiny) black granite in our kitchen. We splurged on this as we liked the look and thought (ha!) it was bomb-proof and hassle-free. From the get-go it was a bastard to maintain. Anything acidic etches it: lemon juice, coffee cups, vinegar, tomatoes etc etc etc till dead. You cannot leave that shit for long or you get lighter-coloured marks, which are basically impossible to remove short of professionally buffing them out and resealing. At first this drove us to distraction and we had the fitters back time and again. The claimed they has used the wrong sealant/ applied it in the wrong temperature and many attempts were made to create a better barrier. I subsequently read that honed surfaces are more porous and prone to etching than fully polished; and I also wondered about the quality of the slab in the first place. Anyway, we weren't happy and felt we had been misadvised and refused to pay the 50% balance. They eventually stopped calling. Three years down the line none of this matters.
tl;dr: it's a work surface and it will get knackered over time so who cares.