Not that unusual in WA Duke. Yes its not a real hard floor, (and we do have a few gouges here & there from things being dropped) but we love the grain and tone of the sheoak.
We had the kitchen in and lived with concrete floors at first, til the boys got older and we could afford the timber floors. When it came to looking around at all sorts of timbers, we kept coming back to sheoak, so went with it.
Ash.