I'm with you 90%. If small pieces of burr can be salvaged for pens etc, then fine, but who in their right mind would pay thousands for a river-of-resin dinig table in which the timber is going to move (inevitably) whilst the resin is going to remain static (inevitably)....the result is inevitable!
....and don't get me started on those ruddy things made out of resin embedded colouring pencils....you take a raw product (the pencil) which likely comes from the far east and has traveled half way around the world, you flood it with a synthetic polyester-based resin and when it's all gone hard, you turn 90% of it into shavings that end up as landfill. Madness!
Les